An obscure Irish woman who rebelled against white collar grime is the focus of a multi-million dollar history project sponsored by the Troy, N.Y.-based American Labor Studies Center.
Laundress Kate Mullany’s claim to fame is to have led,Wholesale Sunglasses, You Can Buy Various High Quality Wholesale Sunglasses Products from Global Wholesale Sunglasses Manufacturers. at age 25,And she turned Bryn into a style rebel as well, dressing her in a white tank top, floral-printed overall shorts and a pair of purple crocs sandals sale. a February 1864 strike by the all-female workforce that washed detachable linen collars at a Troy factory after they were manufactured and before they were sold. Her efforts led to a 25 percent pay hike and the founding of the first all-female labor union in the United States.
The founding of the Collar Laundry Workingwomen’s Association is so important to the American labor movement that retired New York State AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Paul Cole used political muscle to get the house where Mullany lived in Troy designated a National Historic Site, over the objections of the National Park Service, and bypassing the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.｛%｝ from China, buy China wholesale Women's Shoes products and find high quality Women's Shoes products。wholesale women shoes
The muscle Cole used included arranging for then-First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton to use the house as a backdrop for a speech she gave on women’s labor issues. In the speech, she quoted author Carole Turbin, whose book "Working Women of Collar City" is a bible of sorts.
"I wasn’t drawn to Kate Mullaney at all --- she was peripheral to my study," Turbin said, in a telephone interview. "I was inspired by the woman’s liberation movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s to learn about class and ethnic divisions among women. In graduate school I realized I had to know more history, and discovered that in the late 19th century the branch of the Suffrage movement led by Susan. B. Anthony tried to get women in trade unions, the Collar Laundry Union of Troy."
Anthony traveled to Troy to interview Mullany as a possible standard-bearer for the suffragette movement.
"She was disappointed in Mullany" Turbin said. "Mullany didn’t care about the vote. She just wanted higher wages." At the time of Mullany’s single-minded pursuit of better pay, Troy was the center of the detachable collar and cuff industry. The industry itself was started in 1827 by a woman, Hannah Lord Montague,ice bag sale the wife of Orlando Montague, who manufactured women’s shoes. According to Turbin’s book,Hi-Efficiency Filter Bags is supplied by manufacturer. in a flash of inventiveness, Montague solved a household problem, since men’s collars soiled before the shirt. She reached for a pair of scissors,Our Filter Mesh for Sale rang from 10N/inch to 400N/inch and the mesh pore size goes from 2000microns to 20micron and could meet a wide range of demand for filtration accuracy. cut off the collar of the shirt she was laundering and attached white tape to either end and sewed the selvage.
The first detachable collar was made. It could be washed, starched and ironed separately from the shirt, according to Turbin.
Collar making at first was a home-based industry, employing daughters, relatives, neighbors. Boys after school delivered collars by wagons. By the 1850s, with the inventions of the washing machine, sewing machine and steam power, collar making moved out of households and into factories. By the 1860s, collar making dominated the region’s economy, with about 15 firms employing nearly 4,000 women in collar factories and shops and thousands more women stitching collars at home.
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