1881 CE
Washing Society and the Atlanta washerwomen’s strike
Trabajo y organización laboral · Trabajo doméstico · Mujeres trabajadoras · Huelgas
In July 1881, a group of Black washerwomen in Atlanta formed the Washing Society and organised a strike for pay and greater control over their work. This entry makes visible domestic and service labour that factory-centred histories have often treated as peripheral. Participation figures and the lasting economic outcome vary by source; it does not infer that every Black woman worker in the city took part or that gains were identical for all.
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