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'''Josephine Casey''' (1 January 1878(?) – 27 January 1950) was a labour organizer and leader and a women's rights advocate. |
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==Early life== |
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Casey, the youngest of four children, was born in Memphis, Tennessee in [1978?] and raised in Chicago. Her Catholic parents, Cornelius and Bridget Stephens Casey, were Irish immigrants.<ref name=Hoy>{{cite web|last1=Hoy|first1=Suellen|title=Casey, Josephine|url=http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-01376.html|publisher=American National Biographer Online|accessdate=23 July 2015|date=February 2000}}</ref> |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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While working as a Chicago streetcar ticket agent in 1904 she persuaded the women she worked with to form a union. She worked as an organizer for the Boston [[Women's Trade Union League]] from 1906 to 1909. She then organized for the [[International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union]] and was a strike leader for garment workers in Kalamazoo, Cleveland, and St. Louis between 1911 and 1914.<ref name=Storrs/> In March of 1912, Casey's efforts in Michigan were focused on the concerns of female workers at the Kalamazoo Corset Company including low wages, long hours in unsanitary conditions and sexual harassment from male foreman. Organizers and striking employees gained national attention for silent picketing and prayer meetings in response to a court order to stymie disorderly picket lines. An agreement that feel short of significant wage gains, but marked progress for female workers' rights, was reached on June 12. <ref name=Scott>{{cite web|last1=Scott|first1=Beth|title=Kalamazoo Corset Company|url=http://www.kpl.gov/article.aspx?id=1420|publisher=Kalamazoo Public Library|accessdate=23 July 2015|date=1997}}</ref> |
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During [[World War I]] Casey opposed women-only labor laws in the South. She was a suffrage activist and worked for the Women's Political Union in New York. In the 1920s she was a champion of the [[Equal Rights Amendment]]. Following a series of misfortunes, she was earning $5 per week working as a housekeeper. In 1931 the [[National Woman's Party]] (NWP) contacted her and sent her to Atlanta to oppose the efforts by the Southern Council and the Cotton Textile Institute to establish sex-based legislation. Her reports were made into a regular column featured in the NWP's weekly bulletin ''Equal Rights''.<ref name=Storrs>{{cite book|last1=Storrs|first1=Landon R.Y.|title=Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era|date=2000|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|location=Chapel Hill|isbn=0-8078-6099-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-G6PPLLaO0YC&lpg=PA1945&ots=5VLDX3Mhpe&dq=Josephine%20Casey%20labor&pg=PA1944#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref> |
During [[World War I]] Casey opposed women-only labor laws in the South. She was a suffrage activist and worked for the Women's Political Union in New York. In the 1920s she was a champion of the [[Equal Rights Amendment]]. Following a series of misfortunes, she was earning $5 per week working as a housekeeper. In 1931 the [[National Woman's Party]] (NWP) contacted her and sent her to Atlanta to oppose the efforts by the Southern Council and the Cotton Textile Institute to establish sex-based legislation. Her reports were made into a regular column featured in the NWP's weekly bulletin ''Equal Rights''.<ref name=Storrs>{{cite book|last1=Storrs|first1=Landon R.Y.|title=Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era|date=2000|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|location=Chapel Hill|isbn=0-8078-6099-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-G6PPLLaO0YC&lpg=PA1945&ots=5VLDX3Mhpe&dq=Josephine%20Casey%20labor&pg=PA1944#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 03:04, 23 July 2015
Josephine Casey (1 January 1878(?) – 27 January 1950) was a labour organizer and leader and a women's rights advocate.
Early life
Casey, the youngest of four children, was born in Memphis, Tennessee in [1978?] and raised in Chicago. Her Catholic parents, Cornelius and Bridget Stephens Casey, were Irish immigrants.[1]
Career
While working as a Chicago streetcar ticket agent in 1904 she persuaded the women she worked with to form a union. She worked as an organizer for the Boston Women's Trade Union League from 1906 to 1909. She then organized for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and was a strike leader for garment workers in Kalamazoo, Cleveland, and St. Louis between 1911 and 1914.[2] In March of 1912, Casey's efforts in Michigan were focused on the concerns of female workers at the Kalamazoo Corset Company including low wages, long hours in unsanitary conditions and sexual harassment from male foreman. Organizers and striking employees gained national attention for silent picketing and prayer meetings in response to a court order to stymie disorderly picket lines. An agreement that feel short of significant wage gains, but marked progress for female workers' rights, was reached on June 12. [3]
During World War I Casey opposed women-only labor laws in the South. She was a suffrage activist and worked for the Women's Political Union in New York. In the 1920s she was a champion of the Equal Rights Amendment. Following a series of misfortunes, she was earning $5 per week working as a housekeeper. In 1931 the National Woman's Party (NWP) contacted her and sent her to Atlanta to oppose the efforts by the Southern Council and the Cotton Textile Institute to establish sex-based legislation. Her reports were made into a regular column featured in the NWP's weekly bulletin Equal Rights.[2]
References
- ^ Hoy, Suellen (February 2000). "Casey, Josephine". American National Biographer Online. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ^ a b Storrs, Landon R.Y. (2000). Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-6099-9.
- ^ Scott, Beth (1997). "Kalamazoo Corset Company". Kalamazoo Public Library. Retrieved 23 July 2015.