'With an eye toward the future, here are five labor leaders from our city’s past that today’s workers should look to for inspiration as they continue the fight for a better world,' writes author Kim Kelly.
number of child laborers in the country, with 120,000 children working in factories or coal mines. That July, she mustered a “children’s army” of about 300 juvenile mill workers and supporters at City Hall and led them on a march from Kensington to New York, where they intended to visit President Theodore Roosevelt at his summer home in Oyster Bay and demand he give her and three Kensington boys an audience.
Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia’s Radical Hosiery Workers From the Jazz Age to the New Deal, and highlights worker-leader Geisinger as one of the driving forces behind the union’s militant, dedicated female membership. Geisinger was elected as AFFFHW’s organizer in, later sat on Branch 1′s executive board, and was also a sought-after public speaker; during her addresses to union workers, she drew explicit connections between the “special issues” that women faced in the workplace and the need to organize.
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