Rose Spoke Out: The Story of Rose Schneiderman by Emma Carlson Berne non-media and on the seventh day

and on the seventh day both would rest

and entertained millions of readers

and the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

Authors include Nobel Prize–winner Isaac Bashevis Singer and luminaries such as Grace Paley

Rose Spoke Out: The Story of Rose Schneiderman by Emma Carlson Berne non-media and on the seventh dayA young Jewish immigrant from Poland, Rose Schneiderman went to work in a cap factory in New York City when she was just thirteen years old. She saw that women workers earned much less than men, that the factory was cold and dirty, without even clean water for the workers to drink. Rose spoke up for better conditions, and organized 20,000 women to walk out, leaving factories all over the city empty and still. Following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory