Yetta Rayefsky grows up among the cluttered shelves of her father’s second-hand bookshop on East Broadway, then goes to work in a sweatshop finishing skirts. Hardship, a dangerous suitor and the support of new friends draw her into the labour movement, and she becomes a union organiser in the socialist movement of the Lower East Side.
A socialist novel of 1913 that captures the garment strikes and immigrant New York from the inside. Download the free EPUB.