Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big: The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down

by Dana Frank

Overview

"Frank does an excellent job of creating articulate arguments out of a complex blend of history, economics, and current events."—Library Journal

Woolworth's was the Walmart of the 1930s. The women were exploited and sexually harassed. This is the exciting story of how they fought back against corporate exploitation and oppression.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608462469
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	08/15/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	60
File size:	223 KB

About the Author

Dana Frank is a professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, and the award winning Buy American. She has published essays in the Washington Post, SF Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News and The Nation.