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Resistance in Retail
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This chapter features a successful union organizing effort among 5300 women and men at the Woodward & Lothrop department store in Washington, DC. It explores retail workers’ demands for unions and economic security, even as the retail industry’s labor standards declined, and highlights 1970s labor activism among female, young and African-American workers. Newly uncovered anti-union lawyer’s documents reveal employers’ union busting tactics in retail.
Title: Resistance in Retail
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This chapter features a successful union organizing effort among 5300 women and men at the Woodward & Lothrop department store in Washington, DC.
It explores retail workers’ demands for unions and economic security, even as the retail industry’s labor standards declined, and highlights 1970s labor activism among female, young and African-American workers.
Newly uncovered anti-union lawyer’s documents reveal employers’ union busting tactics in retail.
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