this excerpt is taken from the book âwe shall not be moved : the womenâs factory strike of 1909 â and is written by joan dash. it is the story of the great strike when almost 30thousand women working in factories in america formed a union to fight unsafe working conditions, long working hours and miserable wages.
question: which best states the authorâs purpose for including this information in the text?
answer: to challenge the readerâs ideas about a historical event