Jenny Carson

Dr. Jenny Carson, an Associate Professor of History at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, studies and teaches twentieth century American women’s labour history with a particular focus on the history of service work and women’s organizing in the United States. Her book manuscript (near completion), ‘It was up to All of us to Fight’: Women, Work, and Resistance in the Laundry Industry, provides the first book-length examination of laundry work and laundry worker organizing in the United States.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Jenny Carson

Joy in the Struggle: The life of Bea Lumpkin, 1918-2026
June 16, 2026 By Jenny Carson
Through example, Bea Lumpkin demonstrated how one person’s integrity and passion for social justice can transform individual lives, families, and communities.
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Politics

Labor Day celebration of struggle: Bea Lumpkin’s 100th Birthday!
August 15, 2018 By Jenny Carson
The life of activist Bea Lumpkin is a reminder that hope will always defeat hate; that another world is possible.
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Labor

Laundry strike: Everybody goes out
April 6, 2007 By Nell Geiser And Jenny Carson
A front-page photograph in the Oct. 26, 1936, edition of the Daily News captured the defiant, young face of Jessie Taft as she stood chained to the balcony of a New York City hotel.
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Jenny Carson

LATEST ARTICLES BY Jenny Carson

Joy in the Struggle: The life of Bea Lumpkin, 1918-2026

Labor Day celebration of struggle: Bea Lumpkin’s 100th Birthday!

Laundry strike: Everybody goes out