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Codice albumGBB-F-006504
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Image IDGBB-F-006504-0000
1915 ca, USA: The celebrated american feminist leader and marxist socialist politician Rose Schneiderman (1882-1972) also was one of the most prominent Women Labor Union leaders. As a member of the New York Women's Trade Union League (WTUL), she drew attention to unsafe workplace conditions, following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, and helped to pass the New York state referendum of 1917 that gave women the right to vote. Schneiderman is credited with coining the phrase" Bread and Roses", to indicate a workers right to something higher than subsistence living. This was later used as the title of a poem and set to music
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