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The Girl Who Dared to Defy - Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver (Paperback)
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The Girl Who Dared to Defy - Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver (Paperback)
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In the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado's two-year
Coalfield War, a young woman and single mother resolved in 1916 to
change the status quo for "girls," as well-to-do women in Denver
referred to their hired help. Her name was Jane Street, and this
compelling biography is the first to chronicle her defiant
efforts-and devastating misfortunes-as a leader of the so-called
housemaid rebellion. A native of Indiana, Jane Street (1887-1966)
began her activist endeavors as an organizer for the Industrial
Workers of the World (IWW). In riveting detail, author Jane Little
Botkin recounts Street's attempts to orchestrate a domestic mutiny
against Denver's elitist Capitol Hill women, including wives of the
state's national guard officers and Colorado Fuel and Iron
operators. It did not take long for the housemaid rebellion to make
local and national news. Despite the IWW's initial support of the
housemaids' fight for fairness and better pay, Street soon found
herself engaged in a gender war, the target of sexism within the
very organization she worked so hard to support. The abuses she
suffered ranged from sabotage and betrayal to arrests and
abandonment. After the United States entered World War I and the
first Red Scare arose, Street's battle to balance motherhood and
labor organizing began to take its toll. Legal troubles, broken
relationships, and poverty threatened her very existence. In
previous western labor and women's studies accounts, Jane Street
has figured only marginally, credited in passing as the founder of
a housemaids' union. To unearth the rich detail of her story,
Botkin has combed through case histories, family archives,
and-perhaps most significant-Street's own writings, which express
her greatest joys, her deepest sorrows, and her unfortunate
dealings with systematic injustice. Setting Jane's story within the
wider context of early-twentieth-century class struggles and the
women's suffrage movement, The Girl Who Dared to Defy paints a
fascinating-and ultimately heartbreaking-portrait of one woman's
courageous fight for equality.
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