to be near her children and in-laws. At age 81, she entered the Jewish Home for the Aged in Los Angeles. As a resident, she persuaded the management to join in the United Farm Workers boycotts of grapes and lettuce and helped the orderlies there to organize a labor union. References Further reading Orleck, Annalise. Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1995 Shavelson, Clara Lemlich. "Remembering the Waistmakers General Strike," 1909, Ed. by Morris U. Schappes, Jewish Currents (November 1982). Crowder, Melanie. "Audacity", Philomel, January 2015 Markel, Michelle. Brave Girl, New York: Balzer + Bray 2013 External links Life in the sweatshops Video: Clara Lemlich, A Strike Leader's Diary "Remembering the Waistmakers General Strike, 1909" 1886 births 1982 deaths People from Khmelnytskyi Oblast People from Kamenets-Podolsky Uyezd Ukrainian Jews Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent American communists American suffragists UNITE HERE American trade unionists International Ladies Garment Workers Union leaders Women's Trade Union League people Jewish American trade unionists Jewish suffragists Jewish communists Jewish American activists