| | Union Maids by Linda Gordon |
 | | Sylvia Woods was born in New Orleans in 1909, fl, daughter of a craftsman roofer, a man proud of his skill. |
 | | Sylvia Woods describes how in the laundry where she first worked (it was only rarely that fl women could get industrial jobs at that time), the workers conducted what she believes may have been the first sit-down strike of the Depression era. |
 | | Sylvia Woods tells a moving anecdote about encouraging women to resist employers’ efforts to intimidate them about absenteeism by refusing to give specific reasons on the form supplied for that purpose. |
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