United Garment Workers Union

ID: 884
This file appears in: Women Wage Workers

Members in a horse drawn carriage on Labor Day, Saint Paul.

Date: 1905

Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society

This file appears in: Women Wage Workers

By Dave Riehle
Women working outside the home for wages were a small minority of the wage-working class at least until the post World War I era. There were virtually no women employed in the brewing industry until…