Fighting for the Union Label,9780271021683

Fighting for the Union Label

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ISBN13: 9780271021683
ISBN10: 0271021683
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-01-01
Publisher(s): Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Summary

The garment industry gained a foothold in Pennsylvania's hard-coal region as mines were closing. "Runaway" factories, especially from Manhattan, set up shop in mining towns where labor was plentiful and unions scarce. By the 1930s, garment factories employed thousands of wives and daughters of unemployed or underemployed coal miners. Organizing these workers proved difficult for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU).

Author Biography

Kenneth C. Wolensky is a Historian with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Nicole H. Wolensky is a graduate student in Sociology at the University of lowa. Robert P. Wolensky is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(10)
An Industry, a Union, and Runaway Garment Factories
11(28)
The ILGWU's Response to the Runaways
39(20)
Strategizing and Organizing
59(30)
Building a Union Infrastructure
89(30)
Constructing an Activist Union
119(42)
Our Demands Must Be Met: The 1958 General Dress Strike
161(26)
Importing Apparel and Exporting Jobs
187(32)
Epilogue 219(16)
Appendix: Oral History Intevies 235(4)
Notes 239(26)
About the Authors 265(2)
Index 267

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