All together different : Yiddish Socialists, garment workers, and the Labor roots of multiculturalism / Daniel Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Daniel, 1962-

Series:

Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history

The Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing trade--United States--History--20th century.

Clothing trade.

Collective bargaining--Clothing industry--United States.

Collective bargaining.

Jewish labor unions--United States--History.

Jewish labor unions.

Working class--Political activity--United States--History--20th century.

Working class.

Jews--Political activity--United States--History--20th century.

Jews.

Jews--Employment--United States--History--20th century.

Multiculturalism--United States--History--20th century.

Multiculturalism.

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

History.

Jews--Employment.

Jews--Political activity.

Working class--Political activity.

Collective bargaining--Clothing industry.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 volumes.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Examining the activities of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) in the first half of the 20th century, Katz (history, State U. of New York Empire State College) finds a legacy of radical Yiddish socialism to have permeated the ILGWU's early approach to organizing, which was characterized by the vision of class-based revolution rooted in multicultural ethnic identities. He explores the impact this vision of "mutual culturalism" had on the ILGWU's organizing, arguing that the revolutionary ideology of Yiddish socialism, involving a class-based ethnic pride, played a key role in allowing the ILGWU to recruit and retain other marginalized workers in the Lower East Side needle trades, an observation that undermines the prevalent assumption that ethnic affiliations are incompatible with militant class consciousness. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Harmoniously functioning nationalities: Yiddish socialism in Russia and the United States, 1892-1918

The revolutionary and gendered origins of garment workers' education, 1909-1918

Political factionalism and multicultural education, 1917-1927

Reconstructing a multicultural union, 1927-1933

All together different: social unionism and the multicultural front, 1933-1937

Politics and the precarious place of multiculturalism

From Yiddish socialism to Jewish liberalism: the politics and social vision of pins and needles, 1937-1941

Cosmopolitan unionism and mutual culturalism in the World War II era.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814748367

0814748368

9780814763667

0814763669

9780814763674

0814763677

OCLC:

724667332