#WomenLaborers

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The National Women’s Trade Union League (est. 1903) supported strikes that led to the establishment of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. The NWTUL’s official seal was designed by the sculptor Julia Bracken Wendt. It depicts a young mother shaking hands with an allegorical female figure of victory. Wendt herself worked as a domestic servant until the woman who employed her enrolled her at the Art Institute of Chicago. This 1914 pamphlet promotes the NWTUL’s training school for women labor organizers. #NotHiddenLabor

Robins, Margaret Dreier. Educational plans of the National Women's Trade Union League. [Chicago] [1914?]

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@marthaliciadraw @ashlaine_the_brand @artsbynitra @ynotnow205 @queenly1 #leagueofwomenvoters #blackwork #womenlaborers #artists #america #london #paris (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIi6wBKJ7w5/?igshid=11byecvso93ru

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Wigan’s Pit Brow Women: Photos Depicting Poor Working Conditions Of Women Miners In Victorian England

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Women should be in every room where decisions are made and Im proud to work alongside so many dedicated women in the Labor team. Happy International Womens Day. If you signalled any harder youd see it in your pants mate.... Got an opinion about this? See what others are saying.... See MORE -> https://worldnewsinpictures.com/iwd2021 #Women #WomenLabor #WomenLaborHappy #Womens #WomensDay #WomensDayGot #SeeMORE #decisions

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✊🏽BLACK WOMEN’S RESILIENCE RAISED THIS NATION On Labor Day I think of all the laborers, but most importantly women; especially women of color and here’s why. Since the beginning of time women have not only raised children and cared for their families, they have also worked. Medieval times depict women in fields reaping wheat and taking care of animals, usually with a baby on their back. In ancient Babylonian times women were trading and running inns. Fast forward to enslaved black women the caretakers to not only their families but also the white families they were enslaved by. Most times even nursing their white babies, cooking cleaning, and everything else; all while the country benefitted from years of free labor. When slavery ended almost all black mothers worked. As the industrial revolution came black women along with all other low income women juggled factory work with childcare. Let’s not forget that during WWII the number of women laborers reached an all time high due to men at war. Black women have been the backbone of the machine that built this country but yet have faced both racism and sexism. They have cared for our families for centuries and today face huge wage gaps in poverty-waged jobs, and most are left to be the sole providers of their families (mass incarceration of black men and the war on drugs). Despite all this they have been at the forefront of all civil rights movements and fought for rights of working people in their communities to benefit all of us. Look up Lucy Parsons or Hattie Canty. These are just two of thousands of black women we owe a debt of gratitude for their hard work that shaped this nation, and the fight for rights we take for granted today. . Happy Labor Day, enjoy your hot dogs! . . . . #butterflymush #laborday #femaleartist #foodforthought #happylaborday #LDW #blackwomenappreciation #art #blackwomenraisedthiscountry #woc #strongwomen #lucyparsons #hattiecanty #blackwomenactivists #girlart #afrobeauties #blackgirlmagic #intersectionalfeminist #feministart #humanrightsactivist #womenlaborers (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnRrNbzg7CY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jszx7bm9hrfb

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We are excited to join the Special Collections of the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Labor Archives of Washington, and Northwestern University’s Transportation Library in the September #NotHiddenLabor challenge! Each week this month we will be sharing items from our collection that document various aspects of the American labor movement, trade unions, and American workers in general. 

This Charles Pancoast photograph from our World War One Photograph and Ephemera Collection shows members of the National League of Workers taking a break from gardening at Little Wakefield in Germantown. Founded during World War One in 1917, the National League of Workers was formed by a group of women as a national organization geared toward the standardization of work of the women of the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., it quickly became a nationwide force with a particularly large division in Pennsylvania. 

Pancoast, Charles R., b. 1858, photographer. [Group of National League Workers at Little Wakefield]. 1 photograph: gelatin silver (6 X 8 in.).