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

The first successful all women sit-in conducted by 'the counter girls' at the Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression.

About the author

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.

Summary

The first successful all women sit-in conducted by 'the counter girls' at the Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression.

Foreword

National drive-time radio tour

National radio and select TV interviews (Democracy Now!)

Features pitches to (Truth Out and Alternet)

Advertising in the Nation and The Progressive

Promotion targeting Occupy Movement

Published to coincide with ongoing Occupy Movement

Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements

Product details

• Authors: Dana Frank, Frank Dana
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2012
• EAN: 9781608462452
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-245-2
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 216 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 84 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Women's History, Labor History, Feminsm, Unions, S