About 400 workers at the Cotonifício Crespi textile works in São Paulo stopped work in a dispute over wages, working time, and wartime conditions. Women were central to textile labor and to organizing around food prices and household survival. This strike formed part of a wider movement, rather than an isolated workplace grievance. The event does not imply that all strikers were Black or that immigrant and Black workers had identical experiences.
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Eventonan Relashoná
What happened at Cotonifício Crespi on 9 June 1917?
Women played no part in textile work or public protest during the 1917 labor mobilization.
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Splikashon
The scholarship on 1917 describes women workers’ leading role in strikes and public protest.