Jennie Collins
In 1870, Jennie Collins founded Boffin’s Bower in Boston to provide working women with a place to read and socialize, as well as food, clothing, job placement, and other aid.
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Helena Dudley
Director of Denison House, a woman-run settlement house that occupied three buildings In Boston for fifty years
Mary Bluett
Teacher and trade unionist
Hetty Gilbert
Hetty Gilbert was the first woman President of the Victorian Teachers’ Union, and fought for equal pay in education.
Elizabeth Stewart Magee
Fought to secure labor-reform legislation, especially protecting women and children
Josefina Vicens
Mexican novelist, poet, screenwriter and activist for labor rights and women’s rights
Juliet Clannon Cushing
Juliet Clannon Cushing (1845-1935), an advocate of protective labor legislation for women and founded the Consumers’ League of New Jersey in 1900.
Sue Ko Lee
Sue Ko Lee was a Chinese American garment worker and labor organizer with the Chinese Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Association. In 1938, she participated in a successful 15-week strike against the National Dollar Stores garment factory. At the time, it was the longest strike in the history of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Lee went on to become a leader in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) in California.
Alberta Gonzalez
She and other workers staged the first Puerto Rican workers strike in New Jersey.
Leonora Barry
Leonora Barry (1849-1923) was the first woman paid to be a labor investigator in the US.