Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big
The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down
Description
"Frank does an excellent job of creating articulate arguments out of a complex blend of history, economics, and current events."—Library Journal
Woolworth'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.
Author Bios
Dana Frank is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her latest book, What Can We Learn From the Great Depression? Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times, will be out in September 2024 from Beacon Press. Her books on the history of US labor, race, and gender include Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism; Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-29; and with Robin D.G. Kelley and Howard Zinn, Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century. On Honduras she is the author of The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup, and Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America.
More Info
ISBN: 9781608462452
Publication date: July 17, 2012
