Inside The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages

Get the Full StoryA new book tracks the growing fight against poor working conditions in factories worldwide–and how organizers are beginning to collaborate across employer and country lines.

In 2011, Annelise Orleck, a professor of history at Dartmouth College and a longtime historian of women’s and labor movements, traveled to New York City to help organize the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the devastating Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, which killed 146 garment workers in a factory in lower Manhattan. Activists and labor organizers from around the world also arrived in New York to call for a global reckoning with the persistent, inhumane conditions in sweatshops and factories.Read Full Story

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