Synopsis
To See the Stars
Published by Dramatic Publishing
Large Mixed Cast
But the young girls who work in the factories earn barely enough to live on, and their working conditions are brutal
When their pleas for help are rejected by the male-dominated union, the young girls who work at Johannsen's Shirtwaist Factory band together to fight for a better life
They endure beatings, starvation and even prison but ultimately prevail, as the shirtwaist girls win the first industry-wide strike in American labor history
However the girls' real victory is in changing the way they see themselves - not as victims, but as fighters - and in discovering the power of sisterhood
Cast can be expanded