In American society today, it is often easy to take for granted the civil liberties and rights that have been established for us by our forefathers and foremothers. So much oppression and injustice was dealt firmly with by the previous generations, that it is difficult to even imagine that this type of treatment ever occurred, or worse, still occurs today. However, in order to further correct the injustices that still exist and to prevent them from ever occurring again, it is important to fully understand and appreciate the struggles of those who went before and those who struggle still today.
With the economic boom of the Industrial Revolution, the employing of sweatshop workers became common practice for many organizations. Yet, not long after, women, who were the primary sweatshop employees, began to demand their rights as equal human beings. This paper will explore how women took this momentous step from being considered simply another form of property to taking a stand as equals in society, and not only how these divergent groups of women differed from each other, but also were strikingly the same.
