Hear my sorrow : the diary of Angela Denoto, a shirtwaist worker

Hopkinson, Deborah.

Book 2004

Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.

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