Fighting For The Union Label The Women S Garment Industry And The Ilgwu In Pennsylvania
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Fighting For The Union Label The Women S Garment Industry And The Ilgwu In Pennsylvania
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language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
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Fighting For The Union Label The Women S Garment Industry And The Ilgwu In Pennsylvania written by and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Business & Economics categories.
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).
Sewn In Coal Country
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Author : Robert P. Wolensky
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2020-04-24
Sewn In Coal Country written by Robert P. Wolensky and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-24 with History categories.
By the mid-1930s, Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal industry was facing a steady decline. Mining areas such as the Wyoming Valley around the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Pittston were full of willing workers (including women) who proved irresistibly attractive to New York City’s “runaway shops”—ladies’ apparel factories seeking lower labor and other costs. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) soon followed, and the Valley became a thriving hub of clothing production and union activity. This volume tells the story of the area’s apparel industry through the voices of men and women who lived it. Drawing from an archive of over sixty audio-recorded interviews within the Northeastern Pennsylvania Oral and Life History Collection, Sewn in Coal Country showcases sixteen stories told by workers, shop owners, union leaders, and others. The interview subjects recount the ILGWU-led movement to organize the shops, the conflicts between the district union and the national office in New York, the solidarity unionism approach of leader Min Matheson, the role of organized crime within the business, and the failed efforts to save the industry in the 1980s and 1990s. Robert P. Wolensky places the narratives in the larger context of American clothing manufacturing during the period and highlights their broader implications for the study of labor, gender, the working class, and oral history. Highly readable and thoroughly enlightening, this significant contribution to the study of labor history and women’s history will appeal to anyone interested in the relationships among workers, unions, management, and community; the effects of economic change on an area and its residents; the role of organized crime within the industry; and Pennsylvania history—especially the social history of industrialization and deindustrialization during the twentieth century.
Sewn In Coal Country
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Author : Robert P. Wolensky
language : en
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Release Date : 2020
Sewn In Coal Country written by Robert P. Wolensky and has been published by Penn State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Clothing trade categories.
A study of the ladies' garment industry in northeastern Pennsylvania between 1945 and 1995, featuring sixteen selected oral histories conducted with workers, shop owners, and others with knowledge of the industry.
Sweatshop Usa
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Author : Daniel E. Bender
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-28
Sweatshop Usa written by Daniel E. Bender and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with Business & Economics categories.
For over a century, the sweatshop has evoked outrage and moral repugnance. Once cast as a type of dangerous and immoral garment factory brought to American shores by European immigrants, today the sweatshop is reviled as emblematic of the abuses of an unregulated global economy. This collection unites some of the best recent work in the interdisciplinary field of sweatshop studies. It examines changing understandings of the roots and problems of the sweatshop, and explores how the history of the American sweatshop is inexorably intertwined with global migration of capital, labor, ideas and goods. The American sweatshop may be located abroad but remains bound to the United States through ties of fashion, politics, labor and economics. The global character of the American sweatshop has presented a barrier to unionization and regulation. Anti-sweatshop campaigns have often focused on local organizing and national regulation while the sweatshop remains global. Thus, the epitaph for the sweatshop has frequently been written and re-written by unionists, reformers, activists and politicians. So, too, have they mourned its return.
Chorus And Community
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Author : Karen Ahlquist
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2006
Chorus And Community written by Karen Ahlquist and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Choral singing categories.
Looks at choruses not only as a source of music, but as organizations that come together for aesthetic, social, political, and religious purposes. This volume discusses groups, including an East African chorus; groups from 19th century England, Germany, and America; early twentieth-century Russian Menonites; Soviet workers' clubs; and more.
Conversations With Maida Springer
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Author : Yevette Richards
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2004-08-29
Conversations With Maida Springer written by Yevette Richards and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"From the Great Depression to World War II, from the early Civil Rights Movement to the Cold War and the fall of apartheid, Springer was at the forefront of some of the most dramatic social and political changes of the twentieth century. In Conversations with Maida Springer, this champion for workers' rights shares the story of her personal and professional life."--BOOK JACKET.
Encyclopedia Of Women And American Politics Third Edition
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Author : Lynne Ford
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Holdings, Inc
Release Date : 2021-07-01
Encyclopedia Of Women And American Politics Third Edition written by Lynne Ford and has been published by Infobase Holdings, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-01 with History categories.
Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics, Third Edition contains all the material a reader needs to understand the role of women throughout America's political history. This informative A-to-Z volume contains hundreds of entries covering the people, events, and terms involved in the history of women and politics. Entries include: Abortion Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez The birth control movement Black Lives Matter Hillary Rodham Clinton Deb Haaland Domestic violence Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Glass ceiling League of Women Voters #MeToo movement Michelle Obama Sonia Sotomayor Elizabeth Warren and many more.
Empty Mills
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Author : Timothy J. Minchin
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2012-12-16
Empty Mills written by Timothy J. Minchin and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-16 with History categories.
With the economy struggling, there has been much discussion about the effects of deindustrialization on American manufacturing. While the steel and auto industries have taken up most of the spotlight, the textile and apparel industries have been profoundly affected. In Empty Mills, Timothy Minchin provides the first book length study of how both industries have suffered since WWII and the unwavering efforts of industry supporters to prevent that decline. In 1985, the textile industry accounted for one in eight manufacturing jobs, and unlike the steel and auto industries, more than fifty percent of the workforce was women or minorities. In the last four decades over two million jobs have been lost in the textile and apparel industries alone as more and more of the manufacturing moves overseas. Impeccably well researched, providing information on both the history and current trends, Empty Mills will be of importance to anyone interested in economics, labor, the social historical, as well as the economic significance of the decline of one of America’s biggest industries.
Workers Rights And Labor Compliance In Global Supply Chains
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Author : Jennifer Bair
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-26
Workers Rights And Labor Compliance In Global Supply Chains written by Jennifer Bair and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-26 with Business & Economics categories.
This book provides insight into the potential for the market to protect and improve labour standards and working conditions in global apparel supply chains. It examines the possibilities and limitations of market approaches to securing social compliance in global manufacturing industries. It does so by tracing the historic origins of social labelling both in trade union and consumer constituencies, considering industry and consumer perspectives on the benefits and drawbacks of social labelling, comparing efforts to develop and implement labelling initiatives in various countries, and locating social labelling within contemporary debates and controversies about the implications of globalization for workers worldwide. Scholars and students of globalisation, development, corporate social responsibility, human geography, labour and industrial relations, business ethics, consumer behaviour and fashion will find its contents of relevance. CSR practitioners in the clothing and other industries will also find this useful in developing policy with respect to supply chain assurance.
Pennsylvania In Public Memory
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Author : Carolyn Kitch
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2015-06-26
Pennsylvania In Public Memory written by Carolyn Kitch and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with History categories.
What stories do we tell about America’s once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape? Pennsylvania in Public Memory attempts to answer that question, exploring the emergence of a heritage culture of industry and its loss through the lens of its most representative industrial state. Based on news coverage, interviews, and more than two hundred heritage sites, this book traces the narrative themes that shape modern public memory of coal, steel, railroading, lumber, oil, and agriculture, and that collectively tell a story about national as well as local identity in a changing social and economic world.