Waitresses at Woolworth's staged an eight-day sitdown strike in 1937, singing, dancing, exercising, doing each others hair and nails until finally management recognized their union and gave them a five-cent per hour pay hike.
From The Detroit News: http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=150#ixzz10AoN40lc
From The Detroit News: http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=150#ixzz10AoN40lc
Dorothy Sue Cobble wrote a fantastic book called, Dishing it Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century. I had to read it for my doctoral exams and remember being really impressed with it. It discusses the evolution of waitressing and trend for waitresses to see themselves from being unskilled to skilled labor. Here's the call number at the library in case you are still interested in this topic: HD6073.H82 U53 1991
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.workers.org/2010/us/woolworth_0318/