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We always had a union : the New York hotel workers' union, 1912-1953 / Shaun Richman.
Lippincott Library HD8039.H82 U675 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richman, Shaun, author.
- Series:
- Working class in American history
- The working class in American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hotels--Employees--Labor unions--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Hotels.
- Labor unions and communism--New York (State)--New York.
- Labor unions and communism.
- New York (N.Y.)--Economic conditions--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- New York hotel workers' union, 1912-1953
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "One of New York City's most powerful unions, the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, AFL-CIO, represents almost 40,000 workers. Shaun Richman's history places the labor organization within the context of American industrial and craft unionism and reveals how it came to influence politics and economic development in the city and beyond. From the start, New York's organized hotel workers experimented with and adapted how they organized and governed members and related to other labor unions. Richman follows union fortunes from early IWW activity through the Communist-led affiliates of the American Federation of Labor in the 1920s and 1930s, the shaping of breakthrough negotiating strategies, and the postwar era. As Richman shows, workers adopted a radicalism and militancy seldom associated with an AFL organization while openly negotiating the Communist Party's power and influence within the union, until the Party's eclipse in the 1950s. An inspiring story of action and perseverance, We Always Had a Union profiles a foundational American labor union and offers lessons for today's workers and organizers"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Richman, Shaun. We always had a union
- ISBN:
- 9780252046445
- 0252046447
- 9780252088537
- 0252088530
- OCLC:
- 1455632997
- Publisher Number:
- 90101417538
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