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Clara Lemlich Shavelson

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Clara Lemlich Shavelson · Civil Rights & Human Rights

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Clara Lemlich Shavelson pushed union leaders to recognize the importance of women in the labor movement and sparked the famous Uprising of the 20,000 garment workers strike in 1909.

Biography

Clara Lemlich Shavelson is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Clara Lemlich Shavelson pushed union leaders to recognize the importance of women in the labor movement and sparked the famous Uprising of the 20,000 garment workers strike in 1909.

How & why

Clara Lemlich Shavelson pushed union leaders to recognize the importance of women in the labor movement and sparked the famous Uprising of the 20,000 garment workers strike in 1909. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Annelise Orleck, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Annelise Orleck

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Clara Lemlich Shavelson pushed union leaders to recognize the importance of women in the labor movement and sparked the famous Uprising of the 20,000 garment workers strike in 1909.

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Annelise Orleck