A Matter of Moral Justice
A Matter of Moral Justice A long-overlooked group of workers and their battle for rights and dignityLike thousands of African American women, Charlotte Adelmond and Dollie Robinson worked in New…
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A Matter of Moral Justice
A long-overlooked group of workers and their battle for rights and dignityLike thousands of African American women, Charlotte Adelmond and Dollie Robinson worked in New York's power laundry industry in the 1930s. Laundry work opened a door for African American women to enter industry, and their numbers allowed women like Adelmond and Robinson to join the vanguard of a successful unionization effort. Jenny Carson tells the story of how substandard working conditions, racial and gender discrimination, and poor pay drove them to help unionize the city's laundry workers.
It also launched a difficult battle to secure economic and social justice for the mostly women and people of color in the But an affiliation with the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) transformed the union from a radical, community-based institution into a bureaucratic organization led by men.