Name: Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, win Big: The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down
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Author: Dana Frank
ISBN: 9781608462452

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Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, win Big: The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down

Type

Physical Book

Author

Dana Frank

Publisher

Haymarket Books

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

ISBN

1608462455

ISBN13

9781608462452

Synopsis "Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, win Big: The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down "

"This sparkling story of intrepid young women is not just a strike narrative of the Great Depression, but echoes down to our own times. Dana Frank is always on the side of those who are willing to fight!" ––Nelson Lichtenstein, Director, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at the University of California, Santa Barbara"Frank does an excellent job of creating articulate arguments out of a complex blend of history, economics, and current events."––Library JournalWoolworth's was the Walmart of the 1930s. The women were exploited and sexually harassed. This is the exciting story of how they fought back against corporate exploitation and oppression.

Dana Frank

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Dana Frank is a distinguished historian and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work focuses on labor history and social movements in Latin America and the United States. Among her main works is "Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America" (2005), which analyzes the role of women in the banana unions of Latin America. This book belongs to the genre of social and labor history.

Additionally, she is co-author of "Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century" (2001), which addresses three significant strikes in the labor history of the United States. Her work "Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism" (1999) explores economic nationalism in the country. Frank is recognized for her focus on the intersection of gender, labor, and social movements, bringing a critical and profound perspective to her research.

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