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The women's garment workers : a history of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union / by Louis Levine.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lorwin, Lewis L. (Lewis Levitzki), 1883-1970, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
- Clothing workers--Labor unions--History.
- Clothing workers.
- Labor unions.
- Clothing workers--Labor unions.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 608 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : B.W. Huebsch, Inc., 1924.
- Contents:
- Part I. Beginnings and backgrounds. Industrial beginnings
- Early conditions, 1860-1880
- Enter the contractor, 1880-1890
- The sweat-shop
- Intellectuals and workers
- Early strikes and unions, 1880-1888
- "Recognition" and the first lock-out, 1889-1890
- Trials, prisons and pardons, 1890-1892
- The International Cloak-Makers' Union of America, 1892-93
- Factional strife and dual unions, 1890-94
- The "ten commandments," 1894
- The United Brotherhood of Cloak-Makers, 1895-1900
- Cloak-makers' unions outside of New York, 1895-1900
- Unions in other branches of the industry, 1890-1900
- The birth of the international, 1900
- Part II. Darkness and revolt, 1900-1910. Prosperity and "progress," 1900-04
- The "tide of reaction," 1904-06
- The International versus the Industrial Workers of the World, 1905-07
- Two significant strikes, 1907
- Darkness and dawn, 1907-09
- The "Uprising of the Twenty Thousand," 1909-10
- The "Great Revolt," 1910
- Part III. Protocolism : a promise of peace and progress, 1910-16. The first fruits of the protocol, 1910-11
- The Cleveland Strike, 1911
- The women workers adopt protocolism, 1911-13
- Crisis and compromise, 1913-14
- The right to the job, 1914-15
- The new advance and the end of protocolism, 1915-16
- Part IV. Recent changes and present trends. Expansion and reform, 1917-20
- Weathering the storm, 1921-24
- The Cleveland experiment
- The new industrial situation
- The new industrial programme
- The International to-day
- Sanitation, health, benefits
- Education and recreation
- Facing the future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-568) and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lorwin, Lewis Levitzki, 1883-1970. Women's garment workers.
- OCLC:
- 697567
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