Like fire in broom straw - Robert Weldon Whalen

Academic look at the role the media played during the 1929-31 textile strikes in Southern America and the lasting effect the dispute had on the region.

Like fire in broom straw (7.75 MB)

Can you believe this book costs £70 squid!? It's only 144 pages as well. Still, it looks good.

"Fellow Workers of the White Goods Industry!"

1919 Leaflets and hand bill directed to NYC "white goods" garment workers by "The Workers Council of the White Goods Industry".

Bloodshed in Bayonne

October 8, 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the strike at Standard Oil’s Bayonne, N.J., refineries. In the course of the ten-day strike, 4 people…

Strikers face off with militia in Lawrence

The Lawrence textile strike, 1912 - Sam Lowry

A short history of the strike of 20,000 textile workers, mostly women and girls who included native and immigrant workers, which won big…

1970: Feminist Sit in at Ladies Home Journal

An account of a sit in by several feminist groups at the Ladies Home Journal, a popular women's magazine, that was staffed almost entirely by men…