Horny History: Jane Street and the Domestic Workers’ Union

It's real history, as told by some horny dude in my inbox and me.

This series contains heavily sexual language as well as mention of suicide. Reader discretion is advised.

Maids rising up against the rich mistresses that ruled over them. Maids devising a plan to work together to blacklist evil mistresses. Maids taking down the employment agency sharks that preyed on the poor.

The story of Jane Street and the Domestic Workers Union is barely known. It would have stayed buried within a few old newspaper articles and archives if not for historian Jane Little Botkin. (You can find a link to her book in my sources.) She researched heavily through labor transcripts, museum archives, and papers from Jane Street’s family to bring this story back to modern attention. To both Janes!

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Just The Story: Jane Street and the Domestic Workers’ Union

Working class history is one of my most favorite topics, especially when it’s a woman hero. Dean joins us now to tell the story.

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He actually carried on with this a lot longer all by himself, but you get the point.

Jane didn’t just fight the elite. Unfortunately male members of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) also caused problems for the women. Some of the men didn’t support the Domestic Union and some of them went a step further to try to seduce women in need of help. Regardless, Jane won.

Jane Street

Sources:

The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver by Jane Little Botkin

Interview with Jane Little Botkin via Working Class History Podcast

The Washington Post of September 24, 1916 via We Never Forget

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