In that instant, they saw what the majority of people in their hometown had never seen: massive brick factories; rows of streets lined with shops, taverns, and boardinghouses; crowds of well-dressed ...

Many women also began working in factories. The US Department of Labor ... Women also earned incomes by sewing clothes in Works Progress Administration (WPA) sewing rooms. The rooms manufactured ...

Dublin, 16 December 1915 - More than 600 women will begin working in Dublin munitions factories in the New Year. The site selected for the new factory currently holds the old woolen mills on ...

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat govt plans to amend the Factories Act to remove restrictions on women working during night shifts in factories and commercial establishments. Under existing provisions of ...

The workers on the fourth floor of Plant 3 in Akron weren’t exactly Rosie the Riveters. They were more like Millie the ...

But behind this surge lies a harsher reality: for many women, work still means toiling in the informal sector—on farms, in kitchens, behind sewing machines, and in local markets. They work ...