Women strikers occupy chain store, win big the 1937 Woolworth's sit-down

Woolworth's was the Walmart of the 1930s. The women were exploited and sexually harassed. This is the story of how they fought back against corporate exploitation and oppression.

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Main Author: Frank, Dana (Author)
Other Authors: Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2012.
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Summary:Woolworth's was the Walmart of the 1930s. The women were exploited and sexually harassed. This is the story of how they fought back against corporate exploitation and oppression.
Item Description:Cover title.
Originally published by Beacon Press in 2001 as a chapter in: Three strikes : miners, musicians, salesgirls, and the fighting spirit of labor's last century / Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, Robin D.G. Kelley.
Physical Description:61 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-58).
ISBN:9781608462452
1608462455
Author Notes:Dana Frank is a professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, and the award winning Buy American. She has published essays in the Washington Post, SF Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News and The Nation.