Women’s Trade Union League: An Alliance across Class Lines
October 12, 2026
Elizabeth Jozwiak, Associate Professor, History
Workers at the turn of the twentieth century faced twelve-hour days, dangerous conditions and obstacles to unionization. Learn about how women workers and middle-class reformers bucked the system by forming a coalition to improve women’s lives at work and beyond.
Lectures will be held on Mondays at 3 p.m. in the Olm Fellowship Hall of Fairhaven Senior Services, 435 West Starin Road, Whitewater. They are open to the public and registration is not required. Lectures may be recorded and posted to our Fairhaven Lecture website and YouTube channel. Videos of lectures in this series and in past series can be accessed for free any time after they are posted online.
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