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Bread and Roses and other songs and They are Playing a Game readings.
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1 audio disc : (ca. 16 min.) : vinyl, 33 rpm ; 18 cm
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Vinyl album with blue cover. One side includes artwork of a female artist. Once side includes a photo of the Lafayette Dress Co Strike, titled Madeline Parent: A Union Maid. Album includes 5 Artists in voice order: Bonnie Kreps, Joyce Wieland, Kay Armatage, Katja Jacobs, and Vera Frenkel in conversation [at OGA?] on one side. One side includes interview of Madeline Parent on women in unions. Women in conversation discussed the validity of their art, the hardships of raising children whise trying to create, and being taken seriously as a woman. Madeline Parent interview discussed the working conditions that the union was striking against and the importance of starting a union.
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Of unknown acquisition. Transferred from Controlled Access in 2024.
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Bread and Roses was written by James Oppenheim to commemorate an incident that occurred during a textile strike in Lawrence, Mass. in 1912. The mill workers, mostly women, went on strike to protest the working conditions for children in the mills. Their demand was that no child should be made to work more than 54 hours in a single week. After a lengthy dispute, the strikers won their point. Management retaliated by reducing everyone's work week to 54 hours , with a corresponding cut in pay. The women, who of course couldn't afford such a drastic cutback, went on strike again. "What do these women want? the managers said. "Roses?" The next day the women appeared on the picket lines with signs that said "WE WANT BREAD AND ROSES."
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Created by AF and revised by JB Oct. 2025
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