Pauline Newman
Pauline Newman · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Triangle Shirtwaist factory worker who became the first female general organizer of the ILGWU and a lifelong workplace-safety reformer
c. 1887, near Kaunas, Russian Empire (now Lithuania) — 1986, New York City, USA
Lithuania · United States
Pauline Newman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Triangle Shirtwaist factory worker who became the first female general organizer of the ILGWU and a lifelong workplace-safety reformer
Pauline Newman worked as a child at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory and rose to become the first female general organizer of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, then for six decades the educational director of its pioneering union health center. She was a lifelong reformer for workplace safety and worker health care. A Jewish immigrant from the Pale of Settlement, she was Jewish.
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Source: Wikipedia; The Forward
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Triangle Shirtwaist factory worker who became the first female general organizer of the ILGWU and a lifelong workplace-safety reformer
Source: Wikipedia; The Forward
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