1874 WORKING- WOMEN’S PROTECTIVE UNION - HEARING COMPLAINT HARPER’S WEEKLY

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An original wood block engraving depicting the activities of one of the earliest labor trade unions of the Progressive Era from an 1874 issue of Harper’s Weekly.
This is an authentic antique wood engraving with modern hand coloring by a professional colorist using premium water color pencils and/or paints..
From Encyclopedia[dot]com:
Just five years after its creation in 1863, the Working Women's Protective Union (WWPU) had established itself as a champion of working women.
The WWPU did not consider organizing women to strike as one of its purposes. Rather, it focused its activities on forcing employers to pay women their agreed-upon wage and acted primarily as a resource for job training and legal defense and as an employment center.
Though the WWPU was often criticized for not attempting to increase wages or supporting important labor legislation, it was considered a model for like-minded groups. Representatives from across the United States and Europe traveled to New York City to study its structure so that they might create similar organizations.
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