Book Description
for Annie Shapiro and the Clothing Workers' Strike by Marlene Targ Brill and Jamel Akib
From the Publisher
Life wasn't easy for Annie Shapiro and the other clothing workers in Chicago in 1910., At first no one took seventeen-year-old Annie seriously when she walked out of work. But her brave act sparked a strike that grew include to forty thousand workers. Would bosses ever listen to workers? Would months of striking really lead to better conditions?
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