1 10 1 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/12374/archive/files/b02cbf2a31ef3e418a0d1819df5a6726.jpg?Expires=1773878400&Signature=it7acvYY-5ov8mzHbqEJAI-4hc7YF7JvEn%7EJPEIut8bkO6aWZKKw9qFGKb2qqHenDsIZ03%7E0SCkAcbC4R7y6BVQWNkiICMOp18xcTqAv282C4MFoe1WntKFXvfznBNDmmOjRDdVzKK90OF1anrmtITZcXidYeo8GdHtSKoFOVkef-%7En9YitXW6octJfAi5rEnxv8UVB02jZX4rzUZjQ0sSDC16LcgGHSHbrZ7V8YRkMg2S-St1GqkaFEzFtSfI%7EIFxzirOlR4a3r1zZ25lqWxm%7EfPnl8kT45HH1KLuczwDjCdAWdoAEzfrtiZg1FE4EGhxH-pRGMO-QmEzRAOVttrg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 50a881db784c6f9c2643b8e95e05b804 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Bit Depth 8 Channels 1 Height 299 Width 225 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reform (Social or Labor) Description An account of the resource The reform collection highlights those women who dared to influence labor changes to expand worker control over their conditions or who dared to reform society in a positive manner. In the United States, women have historically been major contributors to the great reform movements. Although their work is not given as much credit as those of their male counterparts, it was women who did much of the grassroots campaigning for universal suffrage, abolition of slavery, labor legislation, prison reform, social welfare programs, asylum reform, religious freedom, peace programs, and universal education. This collection then highlights the work of some of those activists and encourages us to be part of the solution and not part of the problem. Person An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc. Birth Date 1880 Birthplace Russia Death Date 1925 Occupation Garment worker Biographical Text The story of Rose Gollup Cohen's life is one of the standard immigrant worker. Cohen was sent from her home of Russia to the United States (he father had already emigrated) to escape Russian persecution of Jewish families. Born Rahel, she changed her name to Rose to avoid discrimination. She went to work in the sweatshops of the garment industry to help her father raise money to secure passage for her mother and siblings. Rose may have looked at the newly installed Statue of Liberty and thought that with a woman standing watch over its harbor that the US was truly an equitable place—she would have been incredibly wrong. Cohen lived in a slum area called a tenement—dirty, rundown, crowded buildings where workers lived and disease and violence was rampant. At work, she continually suffered sexual harassment. The first sentence that she learned in English was, "Keep your hands off, please." (Cohen, 85) Although not her first language, Cohen became comfortable enough writing English to publish an autobiography, Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood in the Lower East Side. In her story, Cohen provides a detailed account of the garment trade, unionization, and the life of a Jewish immigrant. Her autobiography and other writings detail the poor treatment of workers, and those of immigrants. Wage-earning women were treated as dispensable. They were used and abused and then tossed away when the industrial machine had taken their value. Cohen managed to gain an education and rise above the sweatshop, but her death at the age of 45 under uncertain circumstances (thought to be suicide) provides a tragic ending to her story. Bibliography Cohen, Rose. Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood in the Lower East Side. (New York: George H. Doren Co., 1918). Original copy available for free download on Google books. Kessler-Harris, Alice. Out to Work: a History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States. (Oxford University Press, 2003). Jewish Women's Archive: <a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/cohen-rose-gollup">http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/cohen-rose-gollup</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rose Gollup Cohen Subject The topic of the resource Sweatshop labor Description An account of the resource Immigrant sweatshop worker who wrote about the abuses suffered by workers during the Industrial Revolution Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Amy French Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Image: Jewish Women's Archive, private collection garment industry immigrant labor Jewish immigrant sweatshop working women