Bøker av Brigid O'Farrell

A celebration of strong, committed women who helped to build the American labour movement. Through the stories of eleven women from a range of backgrounds, we experience the hardships and accomplishments of thousands of other union women activists through the period spanning the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the McCarthy era, the civil rights movement, and the women's movement.

Although born to a life of privilege and married to the President of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt was a staunch and lifelong advocate for workers and, for more than twenty-five years, a proud member of the AFL-CIO's Newspaper Guild. She Was...