Rochester, Anna

Labor reformer and communist intellectual Anna Rochester was born in New York City in 1880. She was the great granddaughter of the founder of Rochester, New York. While attending college, she became a Marxist scholar, proclaiming herself a socialist in 1910. She wrote and edited for the National Labor Child Committee and she was the editor of the pacifist magazine, The World Tomorrow. From 1920-1922, Anna and five other women, including her partner Grace Hutchins, formed a community house. Rochester and Hutchins set out on a worldwide quest to examine the status of women and socialism in.

Other countries. In 1927, the two founded the Labor Research Association in New York City. Rochester spent much of her life striving for the rights of children, women and the working class. Rochester wrote many articles and pamphlets concerning the labor movement and the impact of capitalism. She died in 1966.

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