Five fast facts: women led strikes that reshaped labor rights

September 22, 1910: 40,000 women garment workers walked out in Chicago.

Clara Lemlich's call for a general strike on November 22, 1909 galvanized thousands in New York.

Workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory struck for better wages and conditions in 1909.

The 1910 Chicago strike prompted significant changes in labor rights for women.

The Lowell Female Labor Reform Association was the first permanent union of women workers in 1844.


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