On Saturday afternoon, hundreds of adults in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, chanted, cried and cheered as a young woman with string bracelets and a buzzcut spoke forcefully into a microphone. Young women in particular have played key roles in leading these movements, although they’ve received less public credit for doing so. One after another, they expressed solidarity with the shirtwaist makers, talking at length about the terrible conditions the workers experienced, while failing to offer concrete actions. Some estimate that as many as 40,000 shirtwaist makers eventually joined the movement. Within the year, thousands of women workers had gone on strike, from Philadelphia to Chicago.

Source: Huffington Post February 19, 2018 20:48 UTC