On Strike!
It is 1909 and the women garment workers have had enough! They have left their sewing machines in the deplorable shirtwaist factories of New York City and have taken to the the picket lines to demand better conditions and fair practices. About 20,000 women joined the picket lines.
They are objecting to:
65 hour workweeks (they want it reduced to 52 hours),
Low wages (they want a 20% increase and overtime pay),
Being required to provide their own needles and thread,
Dangerous working conditions (In 1911, 146 garment workers - mostly immigrant girls age 14-23 - died in a factory fire in NYC),
Unfair fines
March of 20,000
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g3R-SKnxgA&t=468s
Clara Lemlich
www.villagepreservation.org/2017/11/21/november-29-1909-a...
Blythe a Day - Tools Down - 7/11/24
Blythe dolls:
Daunting Drusilla wearing a dress from Amazon, skirt from Etsy and a hat from a doll show
Winterish Allure - wearing a dress from Etsy, Barbie collar, Daunting Drusilla's bow
Matryoshka Maiden wearing Blue Rabbit's stock dress
Blue Rabbit wearing a Barbie dress and hat I found this week at a thrift store for fifty cents
Background - made by me - scrapbook paper and printed images of window, door
Sidewalk and step - made by me from wood, egg carton bricks, paint, and grout
#doll #blythe #blythediorama #winterishallureblythe #dauntingdrusillablythe #blythediorama
On Strike!
It is 1909 and the women garment workers have had enough! They have left their sewing machines in the deplorable shirtwaist factories of New York City and have taken to the the picket lines to demand better conditions and fair practices. About 20,000 women joined the picket lines.
They are objecting to:
65 hour workweeks (they want it reduced to 52 hours),
Low wages (they want a 20% increase and overtime pay),
Being required to provide their own needles and thread,
Dangerous working conditions (In 1911, 146 garment workers - mostly immigrant girls age 14-23 - died in a factory fire in NYC),
Unfair fines
March of 20,000
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g3R-SKnxgA&t=468s
Clara Lemlich
www.villagepreservation.org/2017/11/21/november-29-1909-a...
Blythe a Day - Tools Down - 7/11/24
Blythe dolls:
Daunting Drusilla wearing a dress from Amazon, skirt from Etsy and a hat from a doll show
Winterish Allure - wearing a dress from Etsy, Barbie collar, Daunting Drusilla's bow
Matryoshka Maiden wearing Blue Rabbit's stock dress
Blue Rabbit wearing a Barbie dress and hat I found this week at a thrift store for fifty cents
Background - made by me - scrapbook paper and printed images of window, door
Sidewalk and step - made by me from wood, egg carton bricks, paint, and grout
#doll #blythe #blythediorama #winterishallureblythe #dauntingdrusillablythe #blythediorama