The Ladies' Garment Worker Speaks Volumes for the Woman Worker and Writer

Author

Carolyn J. Cei, The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkFollow

Date of Degree

2-2019

Document Type

Capstone Project

Degree Name

M.A.

Program

Liberal Studies

Advisor

Eugenia Paulicelli

Subject Categories

Digital Humanities | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Liberal Studies

Keywords

Women, Woman, Workers, Strikes, ILGWU, Union, Sexual Harassment

Abstract

The nine volumes of The Ladies’ Garment Worker, put through text analysis, would help find the voice of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union through their own publications. On a CUNY Commons site this analysis would provide digital images of each publication along with a timeline of frequently-used words and phrases that connect to each other; this analysis would establish the main “voice” and identity of the ILGWU women that would create a personified entity during these the issue that is analyzed, which is Volume 1 that was published throughout 1901. The identity of women workers, even under the unionization of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union is defined by unsafe work conditions and sexual harassment that led to sex slavery. Women workers became political and social activists in becoming strikers and part of a union that developed the “voice” of sisterhood and a rise for justice through these nine issues.

Comments

Online component: https://tlgwvolumes.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Recommended Citation

Cei, Carolyn J., "The Ladies' Garment Worker Speaks Volumes for the Woman Worker and Writer" (2019). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3065