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Life Story: Edith Maude Eaton

British and her mother was Chinese. They met when her father traveled to China for business. As a child, Edith moved several times as her father sought work. When she was less than one year old, her family immigrated to the United States. They lived in

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Life Story: Clara Lemlich Shavelson

owned and managed by men, the vast majority of its workers were young Jewish and Italian immigrant women. These women worked six to seven days a week for twelve to fourteen hours a day, with one bathroom break per day. The average wage was $2 per day

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Life Story: Emma Goldman

factory. In 1885, her father sought to arrange a marriage for her. She fled the match and her abusive father by immigrating with her sister to the United States. The sisters settled in Rochester, New York, and found work in a garment factory. Emma

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Women Without a Country

all its history and documents. During the many years he had spent in this country his parents had died, and all connection with Europe had long since ceased. Even the language had been dropped. The author married a German immigrant. He had lived in the

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Waged Industrial Work

references. Such networks were particularly important to newly arrived immigrants and migrants. While a select few might secure skilled jobs, most working women had unskilled jobs in a factory or at home. Some women—particularly married immigrants—made money

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Life Story: Jane Addams

cities in the country. Between 1860 and the 1890s, Chicago had grown from a large Western town of 100,000 to a massive modern city of one million. Immigrants and their children made up nearly 80 percent of the city’s population, and many of them faced the

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Black Life in the Urban North

with at least one woman working was much higher than white or immigrant families. Black women were more likely to find full-time work than Black men. While work for Black men was frequently seasonal, the ongoing demand for domestic help led to more full

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Life Story: Sarah “Madam C.J.” Breedlove Walker

chosen hairstles. Download a PDF of the full guidelines here. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE; IMMIGRATION, MIGRATION, AND SETTLEMENT; ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE; AMERICAN CULTURE For more resources relating to Black women in the nineteenth and

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Mexican Women Unionize

Workers Quit,” El Paso Herald (El Paso, Tex.), ed. 1, Tuesday, October 28, 1919. University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History.PGRpdiBjbGFzcz0iY29udGVudC1kaXZpZGVyIj48L2Rpdj4= Between 1910 and 1930, over one million Mexicans immigrated

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