Annelise Orleck

Annelise Orleck is a professor of history and Chair of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the United States (1995), Soviet Jewish Americans (1999) and Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (2005). She is co-editor of The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right (1997).

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Clara Lemlich in a Shirtwaist, circa 1910

Clara Lemlich Shavelson

Clara Lemlich Shavelson pushed union leaders to recognize the importance of women in the labor movement and sparked the famous Uprising of the 20,000 garment workers strike in 1909. She continued her activism throughout her life, organizing around women’s suffrage and leading food boycotts and rent strikes.

Rose Schneiderman

Rose Schneiderman

For nearly half a century, Rose Schneiderman worked tirelessly to improve wages, hours, and safety standards for American working women. She saw those things as “bread,” the very basic human rights to which working women were entitled. But she also worked for such “roses” as schools, recreational facilities, and professional networks for trade union women, because she believed that working women deserved much more than a grim subsistence.
Pauline Newman Attending a Labor Conference in 1947

Pauline Newman

Pauline Newman played an essential role in galvanizing the early twentieth-century tenant, labor, socialist, and working-class suffrage movements. The first woman ever appointed general organizer by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), Newman continued to work for the ILGWU for more than seventy years—first as an organizer, then as a labor journalist, a health educator, and a liaison between the union and government officials.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Annelise Orleck." (Viewed on November 2, 2024) <http://qa.jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/orleck-annelise>.