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In 1900 the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was formed. 27,000 women joined the ILGWU by 1904, as estimated by The Women's Trade Union League of America. [2] Early women's unions were often in the garment trade, as the industry employed many working women. [2] Women in the garment industry often had to purchase their own thread and ...
As Equals and As Sisters: Feminism, the Labor Movement, and the Women's Trade Union League of New York. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 9780826203182. Foner, Philip S. (1979). Women and the American Labor Movement: From Colonial Times to the Eve of World War I. New York: The Free Press. ISBN 0-02-910370-3. Norwood, Stephen H. (2009).
Alice Hawkins (Stafford, 1863 – Leicester, 1946) was a leading English suffragette among the boot and shoe machinists of Leicester.She went to prison five times for acts committed as part of the Women’s Social and Political Union militant campaign.
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Mary Reid Anderson (née Macarthur; 13 August 1880 – 1 January 1921) was a Scottish suffragist (although at odds with the national groups who were willing to let a minority of women gain the franchise) [1] [2] and was a leading trades unionist.
In total, by 1877, the union had about 4,000 members. [2] A few women joined the union in the late 1880s, making it the first union outside the textile trades to admit both men and women. At this point, membership in the important shoe making centre of Northampton was low, with only about 600 of 15,000 shoe workers in the town holding union ...