ABSTRACT
Histories of feminism have too often obscured the intersections between movements for women’s rights and movements for racial and/or economic justice. They have also too often erased the varied types of involvement and important contributions of working-class women, especially women of color, to explicitly feminist movements. This piece calls for a reimagining of the history of feminism to include those stories. Since the first known strike against sexual harassment by corset makers in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1912 to contemporary efforts to end sexual violence in the workplace in Cambodia and Bangladesh and at McDonald’s restaurants around the world, the labor movement has long been the leading edge of a global feminist campaign against sexual harassment, as parts of larger campaigns for a living wage, safer working conditions, and union rights, as well as fighting against pregnancy discrimination and to end the gendered wage gap.
