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Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl

Mladen Maricic

Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl

Women suffering at the beginning of twentieth century is very well depicted in the film. This film shows a life of hard working immigrant’s women emphasizing two of them- Ida and Angelica.
Although both of them came from different background, Ida as daughter of Russian Jewish immigrant family and Angelica as a daughter of Italian immigrants, both of them, as many others from that part of the Europe, went through tremendous suffering while working in the garment industry. Not that working rights in early Corporate America were ideal, it was actually quite opposite, but the women and children were treated way beyond moral boundaries.
Treated without any respect ...

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