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Annie Shapiro and the Clothing Workers' Strike - History Speaks: Picture Books Plus Reader's Theater Author: Life wasn't easy for Annie Shapiro and the other clothing workers in Chicago in 1910. Bosses could be mean and the hours were long. When the workers' pay was cut, Annie had to take a stand. At first no one took seventeen-year-old Annie seriously when she walked out of work. But her brave act sparked a strike that grew include to forty thousand w... more »
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