When 15,000 workers walk out of a factory in one day and start a picket, it's bound to capture the interest of the press. But when the strike lasts 14 weeks and closes a shirt factory, they mean business. Especially when the strike, led by all women in the early 1900s, was something completely unheard of. In the 1910s, women had more or less the same rights as blacks, and although they enjoyed “freedom,” they were still discriminated against based on color. At the beginning of the industrial revolution immigration to the cities was colossal, many people lived in ghettos and learned that it was often difficult to find good, well-paid jobs. Low income meant that large families had difficulty paying bills. Lack of money to pay bills leads women and children to drop out of school and go to work in large, overcrowded factories. When the heat and pressure of large amounts of work and insufficient pay became too much for them, they decided to rebel. While women were arrested and sent to workplaces slowing progression, the Uprising of 20,000 improved working conditions for sweatshop workers and demonstrated that women could make a difference in a man's world. Women young and old, white and black, walked out of the triangle shirt factory with a purpose. They wanted a better life and better pay for what they worked for: “Young women predominated in the more than 6,000 small sweatshops and the growing number of larger factories. In this competitive and cutthroat industry, workers have had to endure low wages, long hours, unhealthy conditions and speeding.” Women, teenagers, and new immigrants toiled every day, most providing their own materials, continuing a normal 65- to 75-hour workweek. In the case of the triangle shirt factory: “…the steel doors were used to lock the workers in order to prevent them from taking breaks, and consequently the women had to ask