1. What were garment factory working conditions like in the early twentieth century? How do they compare to working conditions today in the United States? In developing countries where much U.S. manufacturing now takes place?
2. The strikers and their supporters employed a variety of techniques to promote compromise on the part of the factory owners. What did they try and would those same techniques work for strikers today?
3. Would the strike have had more support or been resolved more quickly if the strikers had not been primarily impoverished immigrant women? How would the strike have been different?
4. Workers had to pay for their own equipment while earning very little, lost half a day's pay if they.....
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