![]() ![]() Markel’s text is well-supported by Sweet’s watercolor, gouache and mixed-media images, some clearly based on archival photographs. She was arrested 17 times and beaten, but the strike won the right to unionize for workers in many factories (but not the Triangle Waist Factory, whose gruesome fire claimed 146 lives in 1911). But it was Clara who finally-in Yiddish-called for a general strike. When the male workers talked about a strike to protest their fearsome working conditions, they thought the girls weren’t strong enough to join them. ![]() ![]() Immigrant Clara Lemlich was tiny and spoke little English, but she not only worked to support her family in a factory that made women’s clothing, but read and studied at night. A sparkling picture-book biography of the dauntless organizer of the titular strike. ![]()
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