Working class -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
ILGWU. New York Cloak Joint Board records
Collection
Identifier: 5780/020
Abstract
The New York Cloak Joint Board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, represented a number of New York City local unions whose members were employed as cloak makers. The collection contains reports, photographs, and the correspondence of three of its managers Israel Feinberg, Isidore Nagler and Henoch Mendelsund.
Dates:
1926-1978
International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Benjamin Schlesinger, President. Records
Collection
Identifier: 5780/009
Abstract
Correspondence, form letters, circulars and subject files relating to Schlesinger's second term as president, June 1914 to January 1923. Topics covered in these materials include union organizing; strikes, labor disputes, working conditions, and other labor issues in the women's garment industry, particularly in New York City; inter-union relations; relations between manufacturers' associations and the union; efforts by Schlesinger and others to form an alliance of garment workers' unions;...
Dates:
1914-1923.