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Farm workers - Andrew the Apostle, Benedict of Nursia, Bernard of Vienne, Eligius, George, [10] Isidore the Farmer, Notburga, Phocas the Gardener, Walstan. Farriers - Eligius, John the Baptist. Field workers - Medard. Firefighters - Eustace, [20] Florian [5] Brazilian firefighters - George.
The New York Times crossword is a daily American-style crossword puzzle published in The New York Times, syndicated to more than 300 other newspapers and journals, and released online on the newspaper's website and mobile apps as part of The New York Times Games. [1][2][3][4][5] The puzzle is created by various freelance constructors and has ...
The Laundry Workers Industrial Union was a labor union affiliated with the Communist Party's Trade Union Unity League during the early 1930s. Established in 1931, the union organized laundry workers in New York City, and later became part of the non-Communist Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. The union's membership was primarily African ...
The Atlanta washerwomen strike of 1881 was a labor strike in Atlanta, Georgia involving African American washerwomen. It began on July 19, 1881, and lasted into August 1881. [1] The strike began as an effort to establish better pay, more respect and autonomy, and a uniform base salary for their work.
Look up washerwoman in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bronze sculpture by Renoir, 1916. A washerwoman or laundress is a woman who takes in laundry. Both terms are now old-fashioned; equivalent work nowadays is done by a laundry worker in large commercial premises, or a laundrette (laundromat) attendant.
Hunna (also called Huna and Huva, [1][2] birth unknown, [3] d. 679), is a saint venerated in the Catholic Church. Born in Alsace in eastern France, [2] she is the patroness of laundresses; [1] her feast day is April 15. She was canonized by Pope Leo X in 1520. [3][2][4]
The Collar Laundry Union was the first all-female labor union in the United States. [1] It was started in Troy, New York by Kate Mullany in 1864. [2] [3] At the time, being a laundress was a difficult job. An almost exclusively female occupation, laundresses worked 12 to 14 hours a day for very low pay in very hot buildings (which led to the ...
Kate Mullany was an Irish immigrant born in 1845 who moved to the United States of America at a very young age. [3] With her co-workers Esther Keegan and Sarah McQuillan, she organized approximately 300 women into the first sustained female union in the country, the Collar Laundry Union, in 1864. Mullany went on to be its president and was ...