Sentences with phrase «women garment workers»

More than 50 years later, on March 8, 1909, women garment workers in New York again struck for better wages and improved working conditions.

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Edwin Goodman, who had started out in the women's dress business as a lowly garment worker, knew he was making a potentially perilous decision in moving to an expensive location far up Fifth Avenue.

My grandmother, Helen, was a member of the International Ladies Garment Workers... and she always told me that a woman's place is in her union.

It came about to honor the 1908 garment workers strike in New York City, when women protested against unsafe working conditions.

However, research from the Garment Worker Diaries has made me concerned that the women who make my clothes are not paid enough to afford life's necessities and support their families.

Considering that women in developing countries make up a larger percentage of the world's garment workers — and the world's poor — than men, women of color are often the main beneficiaries of these kinds of businesses.

Not just because women buy and wear more clothes than men, but because 80 % of garment workers are women.

Among the many different unions, ILGWU, the International Ladies» Garment Workers» Union, was one of the most prevalent and powerful, and the first major union to have mostly women members.

On March 8, 1857, garment workers staged one of the world's first organized actions by working women, striking against the inhumane working conditions in New York City textile factories.

Eighty percent of garment workers are young women between 18 and 24.