The Labor Movement

By JaydenTaylor061506

  • First turnout of “mill girls” in Lowell, Massachusetts

    First turnout of “mill girls” in Lowell, Massachusetts
    to protest wage cuts

  • Lowell Female Labor Reform Association

    Lowell Female Labor Reform Association
    begins public petitioning for 10-hour day

  • After her dress shop is destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire

    After her dress shop is destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire
    Mary Harris "Mother" Jones begins working as a labor organizer

  • Women’s Trade Union League

    Women’s Trade Union League
    formed at the AFL convention

  • Uprising of the 20,000

    Uprising of the 20,000
    female shirtwaist makers in New York strike against sweatshop conditions

  • Triangle Shirtwaist factory

    Triangle Shirtwaist factory
    fire in New York kills nearly 150 workers

  • Bread and Roses strike begun by immigrant women in Lawrence

    Bread and Roses strike begun by immigrant women in Lawrence
    Massachusetts, ended with 23,000 men, women and children on strike and with as many as 20,000 on the picket line

  • Frances Perkins becomes the U.S. secretary of labor

    Frances Perkins becomes the U.S. secretary of labor
    the first woman to be appointed to the U.S. Cabinet

  • Equal Pay Act

    Equal Pay Act
    bans wage discrimination based on gender

  • Coalition of Labor Union

    Coalition of Labor Union
    Women founded

  • President Barack Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

    President Barack Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
    which restored the rights of working women to sue over pay discrimination