From the inside: "In 1824 when women in the United States first went on strike, the "Boston Transcript" described it as: "...an instance of woman's clamorous and unfeminine declaration of personal rights which it is obvious a wise providence never destined her to exercise.' The first women's trade union was organized a yer later by ailoresses in New York City, and in 1831 sixteen hundred tailoresses went on strike for several weeks. For 150 years working women have been fighting for better conditions and pay, but you will not learn very much about their struggle in conventional histories of the American labor movement." Librarian's note: Contains references to white working women's conditions in the period of "Colonial America" without an analyis of colonialism or racism. See also FEM HOO 1975.