When 15,000 workers walk out of a factory in one day and start a picket, it's bound to capture the interest of the press. But when the strike lasts 14 weeks and closes a shirt factory, they mean business. Especially when in the early 1900s all women were driven by something completely unheard of. In the 1910s women had more or less the same rights as blacks, and although they had “freedom,” they were still discriminated against based on color. At the beginning of the industrial revolution, immigration to the cities was colossal, many people lived in ghettos and learned good, well-paid jobs, which were often difficult to find. Low income meant that large families had difficulty paying bills. Lack of money to pay bills leads women and children to drop out of school and go to work in large, overcrowded factories. When the heat and pressure of large amounts of work and insufficient pay became too much for them, they decided to rebel. While women were arrested and sent to workhouses slowing progression, the Uprising of 20,000 improved working conditions for sweatshop workers and workers....