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By Louise Donovan, The Fuller Project In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C. Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit record. The 22-year-old shot a video of the giant black-and-red ‘Everything Must go!” posters, and posted it on TikTok in October. “Slowly losing my job,” she wrote below, days before the store in Delano, California, shut for good, one of 156 J.C. Penneys across the United States to close since June of this year. Since being laid off, she’s applied for a couple of roles — counselling kids, delivering flowers — but has yet t...

And it's taking down workers at both ends. Dec 22nd, 2020 Louise Donovan, The Fuller Project Alexandra Orozco stands for a portrait outside of the closed J.C. Penney where she was laid off from, in Delano, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. Orozco began working part-time at the department store when she was 18, and in nearly four years rose through the ranks from cashier to freight team associate. Madeline Tolle/The Fuller Project via AP In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C. Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit record. The 22-year-old shot a video o...

Everybody back at work. those workers did more than change their own lives. they changed america. within weeks, more than a quarter of a million textile workers throughout new england got wages. within months, massachusetts became the first state in the nation to mass a minimum wage law. and today there are no children working in factfactories. we have a national minimum wage and national workers safety laws. workers get paid overtime. and we now have a 40-hour work. that's right. because of the workers right here in lawrence and across the country, we have weekends. the story of lawyerance re...

Working conditionings were horrible. children were forced to operate dangerous equipment. workers lost hands and arms and legs in the gears of machines. one out of every three adult mill workers died by the time they were 25. and then on january 11, 1912, a group of women who worked right here at the everett mill, discovered that their bosses had cut their pay. and that was it. the women said enough is enough. they shut down those looms and they walked out. and soon workers walked out of another mill in town. and then another. and then another. until 20,000 textile workers across lawrence were...

Inside mills, working conditions were horrible, children were forced to operate dangerous equipment. workers lost hands and arms and legs in the gears of machines. one out of every three adult mill workers died by the time they were 25 and then on january 11th, 1912, a group of women who worked right here at the everett mill discovered that their bosses had cut their pay and that was it. the women said, enough is enough! [cheers] >> they shut down those looms and they walked out. and soon workers walked out at another mill in town. and then another and then another, until 20,000 textile worker...