What role did women play in the labor movement

The women brought to trade unions their sensibilities about the organizing process of labor to support the government regulation to protect women in the work force.

The role women played in advancing the labor movement laid the roots for the feminist movement. Women in the 1800s recognized they were unfairly excluded from higher wages and collective bargaining

African americans at the time just came out of slavery and needed money to provide for there families. so they joined for the money mainly.