Lara Vapnek

Tonight at 7:00 p.m., I will be reading from my new book, Breadwinners, recently noted in the NY Times.

The reading & signing will be held at:

Book Court
163 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231

Please come by and check it out. Thanks.

STORY OF REMARKABLE WOMEN

WHO SHAPED EARLY FIGHT

FOR GENDER EQUALITY

‘“Breadwinners” reads almost like a prequel to “When Everything Changed,” a history of American women since 1960 by Gail Collins, an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times.’

—Sam Roberts, NY Times, “Bookshelf”, 11/29/09

“Vapnek chronicles the labor movement through capsule biographies of largely forgotten individuals who had a profound impact on the lives of working women.

Her account is national in scope, but New York women figure in it prominently. Among them was Leonora O’Reilly, who left school at age 11 to work in a garment factory and support her widowed mother and family. She would emerge as a leader of the 1909 shirtwaist makers’ strike and as a suffragist.”

Breadwinners reveals women’s groundbreaking struggle for workplace equality — a full century before the 1960s.