Self-Employed Women’s Association

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Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

Adolf Hitler (Nazi, nazism, German leader).

9 Things You Might Not Know About Adolf Hitler

Hindu Holi Festival celebrations with colored water, powder and colorful flower petals thrown over celebrants at a Hindu temple in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India on March 24, 2021.

Holi: Festival of Colors

World map. Continents. Oceans. Mendel thumb ok

Just How Many Oceans Are There?

Solar eclipse of the sun.

The Sun Was Eaten: 6 Ways Cultures Have Explained Eclipses

Moonrise over Tucson, Arizona

Why Doesn’t Arizona Observe Daylight Saving Time?

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

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Also Known As	SEWA
Related People	Ela Bhatt

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Industrial Workers of the World Solidarity Knights of Labor Teamsters Union Molly Maguires United Farm Workers AFL–CIO UNISON Trades Union Congress National Labor Union