Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big: The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down - Paperback

by Dana Frank (Author)

"Frank does an excellent job of creating articulate arguments out of a complex blend of history, economics, and current events."--Library Journal

Woolworth's was the Walmart of the 1930s. The women were exploited and sexually harassed. This is the exciting story of how they fought back against corporate exploitation and oppression.

Author Biography

Dana Frank is a professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, and the award winning Buy American. She has published essays in the Washington Post, SF Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News and The Nation.