Absolutely! But don’t forget the other 5,500 workers in six cities that also went on strike against Marriott and won. Part of the story here is a coordinated national strategy. 

Meritocracy is a myth and I applaud you for attacking that myth mercilessly. More of this please.

“Flanagan repeatedly acknowledges the generation gap...but fundamentally misunderstands the motivation for the “strength” she cites...this struggle was tied up inextricably in female purity and the stakes a woman faced in her eventual, and all but obligatory married life—where, by the way, once there, she had no…