All together different :: Yiddish socialists, garment workers, and the labor roots of multiculturalism /

In the early 1930's, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) organized large numbers of Black and Hispanic workers through a broadly conceived program of education, culture, and community involvement. The ILGWU admitted these new members, the overwhelming majority of...

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Main Author: Katz, Daniel, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2011.
Series:Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:In the early 1930's, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) organized large numbers of Black and Hispanic workers through a broadly conceived program of education, culture, and community involvement. The ILGWU admitted these new members, the overwhelming majority of whom were women, into racially integrated local unions and created structures to celebrate ethnic differences. All Together Different revolves around this phenomenon of interracial union building and worker education during the Great Depression. Investigating why immigrant Jewish unionists in the ILGWU appealed to.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-288) and index.
ISBN:9780814763667
0814763669
9780814763674
0814763677
9780814748367
0814748368

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