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Southeast Women's Employment Coalition

By Tobi Lippin

December 1, 1981 - This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 9 No.

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Shoulder to Shoulder

By Anne Braden

December 1, 1981 - The struggle for a union at Virginia’s Newport News shipyard united women and men, black and white.

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School for Women Workers

By Laura Batt

December 1, 1981 - This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 9 No.

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RX for Rotten Conditions

By Cecily Deegan

December 1, 1981 - 450 hospital workers struggled against the medical establishment for a year and a half and won their first union contract.

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Raising Cane

By Carolyn Portier

December 1, 1981 - Louisiana farmworkers are working together to break the shackles of a modern plantation system.

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Raises, Not Roses

By Diane Teichert

December 1, 1981 - Women office workers organize to win raises, rights and respect.

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Black and white photo of woman in hard hat staring down pipe

December 1, 1981 - Single mothers are often limited to a choice between a minimum wage job or welfare. A program for chicana women in Texas strikes at the heart of the matter: the need for income sufficient to meet the family’s needs.