“The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.” – Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Before the 1909 strike where more than 20,000 garment shirtwaist makers walked out to picket for better wages and improved working conditions, there was the Lowell Mills women who organized to protest wage cuts in 1834 and again in 1836. The rebellious act of the Lowell Mills women was poignant, as it embarked a mass movement for workers’ rights in the United States. The organizing model of the Lowell Mills women in 1834 resulted in an outdoor rally with other mill workers with a signed petition “We will not go back into the mills to work unless our wages are continued.” The exuberance of the mills women rattled
Before the 1909 strike where more than 20,000 garment shirtwaist makers walked out to picket for better wages and improved working conditions, there was the Lowell Mills women who organized to protest wage cuts in 1834 and again in 1836. The rebellious act of the Lowell Mills women was poignant, as it embarked a mass movement for workers’ rights in the United States. The organizing model of the Lowell Mills women in 1834 resulted in an outdoor rally with other mill workers with a signed petition “We will not go back into the mills to work unless our wages are continued.” The exuberance of the mills women rattled