Bread and roses: three visions of change for women and labor [bread and roses: three visions of change for women and labor will be a 60-minute documentary and interactive web platform vividly…

Bread and roses: three visions of change for women and labor [bread and roses: three visions of change for women and labor will be a 60-minute documentary and interactive web platform vividly depicting three early twentieth-century women labor leaders whose lifelong commitments to change helped to transform the american workplace. Drawn together in the aftermath of the triangle shirtwaist factory fire, frances perkins, rose schneiderman, and clara lemlich shavelson took divergent paths ? Policy, organizing, and activism ? To avert future disasters. This is the first feature-length documentary to take a broad view of women?s labor history during the first decades of the twentieth century ? A time of ferment and reform chronicled in academic scholarship since the mid 1970S, but little known to the general public. Emerging amid a resurgence in labor organizing, bread and roses aims to fill that GAP through an accessible yet scholarly film well-suited to public television audiences as well as classrooms.]