Author: Bonnie Stepenoff

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781575910284

Social reformers of the early twentieth century drew attention to the tender age of many of the silk workers. Through the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, these female workers struggled to establish themselves, not as childlike victims, but as independent women, capable of finding their own way in the world and standing up for their own rights."--BOOK JACKET.