Hear my sorrow
Subtitle: the diary of Angela Denoto, a shirtwaist worker
By: by Deborah Hopkinson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Dear America
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Factories -- Fiction.; Labor disputes -- Fiction.; Immigrants -- Fiction.; Italian Americans -- Fiction.; Diaries -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references {p. 187-188}.