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Common SparrowThis is the latest Local History post from our library here in Rochester NY.<a href="https://rochistory.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/a-teenage-tragedy-the-life-of-ida-braiman/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://rochistory.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/a-teenage-tragedy-the-life-of-ida-braiman/</a>In 1913, Ida Braiman, a teenage garment worker, was killed during a demonstration to organize workers. This article tells her story.During the 1910's, the garment industry became one of the leading centers of the workers' unionization movement. The Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence Massachussets, the Uprising of Twenty Thousand in New York City, and other large strikes of garment workers brought attention to the demands of the workers.Here in Rochester, the garment industry was a huge employer. My grandpa was born in 1913, and had multiple relatives in the Rochester garment business. Grandpa's mother worked as a seamstress in the tailor shops, while his father was a cutter. (Cutters were considered a more skilled job. They were paid more, and they were almost all men). In the 1930's and 1940's, after unionization, Grandpa's sisters' generation enjoyed much better conditions than Ida Braiman's earlier generation had known. Grandma once told me that jobs in the tailor shops kept a lot of people employed during the Depression, because with so many different shops in town, you could just move from one to another as this one or that one was hiring or laying off. Our local PBS station made a documentary about the Rochester garment industry, "Tailor Made", tracing the history to our own day.<a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/wxxi-documentaries-tailor-made-story-rochesters-garment-industry/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.pbs.org/video/wxxi-documentaries-tailor-made-story-rochesters-garment-industry/</a><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/GarmentIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GarmentIndustry</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/RochesterNY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RochesterNY</a>

Jules"The wearing of flowers by garment workers is profoundly misunderstood. It has come under criticism as a sign of ‘financial-illiteracy’ - of frivolous high spending amongst low-waged women who can’t manage their monthly expenses......If global fashion brands paid fairly, workers wouldn't need to send their children to pick flowers before school."<a href="https://www.tansyhoskins.org/factory-flowers-beauty-and-survival-in-indias-garment-factories/?ref=tansy-e-hoskins-newsletter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tansyhoskins.org/factory-flowers-beauty-and-survival-in-indias-garment-factories/?ref=tansy-e-hoskins-newsletter</a><a href="https://social.coop/tags/VictimBlaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VictimBlaming</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/FastFashion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FastFashion</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/GarmentIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GarmentIndustry</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Sweatshops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sweatshops</a>

The Japan TimesBangladesh’s figurehead president promised to hold elections "as soon as possible” following the ouster of long-time leader Sheikh Hasina in the wake of deadly protests. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/08/06/asia-pacific/bangladesh-president-vows-election/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/08/06/asia-pacific/bangladesh-president-vows-election/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/asiapacific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#asiapacific</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sheikhhasina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sheikhhasina</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dhaka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dhaka</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bangladesh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bangladesh</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/garmentindustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#garmentindustry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/walmart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#walmart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gap</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adidas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#adidas</a>

Tansy Hoskins 🍉 🍉There's a fashion book I really like and I'm going to talk to the author about it on WEDNESDAY!The book: 'Garments without Guilt? Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels' by Professor Kanchana N Ruwanpura.The date/time: 8 Nov from 12-1.30pm GMT. The organiser: The South Asia department of The Political Studies AssociationFree registration: <a href="https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/psa-politics-of-south-asia-specialist-group/t-ojqmmqx" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/psa-politics-of-south-asia-specialist-group/t-ojqmmqx</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/GarmentIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GarmentIndustry</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Fashion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fashion</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/SriLanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SriLanka</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WorkersRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorkersRights</a>

Tansy Hoskins 🍉 🍉📣 Sri Lanka: the crisis and justice for garment workers. Event on 22nd March in Leicester, UK <a href="https://www.tuc.org.uk/events/sri-lanka-crisis-and-justice-garment-workers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tuc.org.uk/events/sri-lanka-crisis-and-justice-garment-workers</a><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Fashion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fashion</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/GarmentIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GarmentIndustry</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/GarmentWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GarmentWorkers</a>

Tansy Hoskins 🍉 🍉Hi 👋 My latest book has a 40% discount during Women’s History Month!"A controlled demolition, Hoskins uses facts to strip away the apparel trade's decorative exterior and then dynamites the foundations" - Monthly Review <a href="https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346618/the-anti-capitalist-book-of-fashion/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346618/the-anti-capitalist-book-of-fashion/</a><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Fashion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fashion</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Book</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/BookDiscount" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BookDiscount</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/NonFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NonFiction</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/AntiCapitalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiCapitalist</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/GarmentIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GarmentIndustry</a>

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