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...years old, was running a tufting machine at a textile factory on her first day on the job. She had received no instructions about how to run the machine. After two hours of operation, the machine chopped off two of her fingers. Incidents like these were common in the "sweatshop" textile factories of Lowell and Lawrence Mass. 100 years ago. But Pease works at a J.P. Stevens Company plant in North Carolina and her accident occurred last year...
...unique moment in human transactions, that propelled his work for the next three decades. It transcended formalism without damaging his aesthetic sense. Any event is an infinitely divisible string of moments, and Hine had an uncanny eye for the right one. An Italian woman, carrying a floppy bundle of sweatshop piecework on her head through the Lower East Side, is transformed into an icon of labor - solid as a young Mother Courage, but turned into a caryatid by the iron lamp post that rises above her head, exactly on the axis of her body...
...year at Harvard, the International Women's Day program, with its speeches and cultural events, was just as serious although different in scope. The women who gathered at Emerson Hall on the weekend proclaimed a goal at once more limited and more all-encompassing than the objectives of the sweatshop workers in 1908--the creation of a women's studies concentration at Harvard as part of a general movement toward eliminating what the call the white male bias found in the structural and academic aspects of the university and country...
International Women's Day originated in the United States on March 8, 1908, when thousands of women garment and textile workers participated in a march in New York City, organized by a group of socialist women to demand an end to sweatshop conditions, child labor, and for the right to vote. The action of these women was an inspiration to people all over the world, demonstrating the power of women joined in struggle for their rights. Around 1910, at the International Conference of Women Socialists, Clara Zetkin, German socialist leader, introduced a resolution to set aside March 8 as International...
...were joined by impoverished Lebanese from areas of South Lebanon devastated by Israeli attacks. The flow of refugees eventually swelled to a crushing total of 30,000. At Tel Zaatar they provided a cheap labor force for the Christian-owned factories in the area. For most, it was a sweatshop existence in airless rooms where they rolled tobacco or cut cloth or finished dresses...