"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too." These were the words uttered on April 2, 1911 by a young Polish-born immigrant woman at a meeting at New York's Metropolitan Opera House.

Some are more celebrated than others such as the Pullman Strike of 1894 and the Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Some, however, have gone unnoticed or underappreciated in ...

"The Lawrence strike, one of the largest in United States history, became known as "the Bread and Roses Strike," after workers' protest signs that read, "We Want Bread, But Roses Too!" The strike, ...