In 1824, young women and girls working 15 hours a day in Portucket, Rhode Island textile mills,

shocked their bosses by organizing the first factory strike in US history.

They walked out of the factories and into the streets, hold abuse at the bosses,

attacked working meals, and won improvements to their conditions.

This is working class history. Today we are very happy to be joined by Joey de Francesco, a public historian and musician

based in what is now known as Providence, Rhode Island, but was traditionally Narragansett

land.

Joey has done some great work researching a strike, which is little known, but of huge historical

significance, as not only was it the

first strike in the US organised by women, but it was the first strike of wage workers at a factory

in the country.

We'd never even heard of it until Daniel Denvere from the Dig Podcast contacted us on Twitter

and let us know about Joey's work.

Long-term listeners of our podcast will know that our recent episodes have generally been

in a narrative format, but our discussion with Joey, we thought, worked a bit better as an interview Q&A like most of our earlier episodes.

So the format today is a little different from most of our recent episodes.

But anyway, we hope you enjoy it.

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