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Fannie Never Flinched: One Woman's Courage in the Struggle for American Labor Union Rights

Fannie Sellins (1872 - 1919) lived during the Gilded Age of American Industrialization, when the Carnegies and Morgans wore jewels while their laborers wore rags. Fannie dreamed that America could achieve its ideals of equality and justice for all, and she sacrificed her life to help that dream come true.

Fannie became a union activist, helping to create St. Louis, Missouri, Local 67 of the United Garment Workers of America. She traveled the nation and eventually gave her life, calling for fair wages and decent working and living conditions for workers in both the garment and mining industries. This book includes an index, glossary, a timeline of unions in the United States, and endnotes.

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"The narrative begins with the murder of Fannie Sellins by deputies in Natrona, PA, in 1919 and then goes back 20 years to when Sellins first started working at the Marx and Haas garment factory and helped form the local United Garment Workers of America (UGWA) in St. Louis. Sellins moved up the UGWA ladder and traveled the country talking about the plight of factory workers: long days, low pay, and unsafe working conditions....In her author's note, Farrell details why she wrote about Sellins and discusses the difficulties she faced in finding reliable information about her subject's personal life." — Tamara Saarinen, School Library Journal

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Recommended Age 9 - 12
Author Mary Cronk Farrell
ISBN 1419718843
Publication Date Nov 1, 2016
Publisher Harry N. Abrams
Language English