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A clear labor-history portrait of Mary Kenny O'Sullivan, with Chicago context and a working-class angle.
Mary Kenny O'Sullivan comes across as an early labor leader whose importance is tied to work, not myth. The piece connects her bookbinding career, her role in the Bookbinders Union, and her ties to Hull House in a way that keeps the focus on how she helped organize women workers…
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Press play if you want a labor-history conversation about Mary Kenny O'Sullivan, a bookbinder who became one of the first women leaders in the movement.
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