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Bikinis and Other Atomic Incidents: The Synthetic Life of the Nuclear Pacific
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (142): 37–56.
Published: 01 January 2022
....” To elaborate on this argument, this article tracks the bikini’s achievement of propriety within a broader fashion revolution spurred by the use of high-tech fibers in swim, sleep, and support garments. It shows how an atomic ideal of “nature” arose from an imperial desire for security in the face of extreme...
FIGURES
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Inspecting Workers: Medical Examination, Labor Organizing, and the Evidence of Sexual Difference
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Radical History Review (2001) 2001 (80): 51–75.
Published: 01 May 2001
.... Bender
In 1914, the largest and most important union in New York’s garment industry, the
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU), decided to conduct a sys-
tematic survey of the health of Jewish immigrant garment workers. Through...
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Bobbins, Pins, and Runways: The Needle Trades and the Remaking of Working-Class History
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Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (73): 204–212.
Published: 01 January 1999
... in the German textile
industry. Wendy Gamber’s The Female Economy explores the garment
industry immediately before the ready-made revolution, the so-called
democratization of the industry when clothing was increasingly pre-
made to regularized sizes. She examines the momentary success of
women’s...
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The Solidarity Project: Integrating Labor Studies, Writing, and Fieldwork
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Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (72): 58–67.
Published: 01 October 1998
... a framework for the fieldwork but focused enough
to have intellectual coherence. The planning committee met with Jeff
Hermanson of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (now
UNITE) who had been developing workers' justice centers in New York
and Los Angeles. We all read Hermanson's article...
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Visual Design and Exhibition Politics in the Smithsonian's Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (88): 139–162.
Published: 01 January 2004
... it advertised: a history of the garment
industry sweatshop beginning in the nineteenth century and culminating in a study
of the infamous El Monte shop, whose Thai workers were held in virtual slavery until
the 1995 raid that liberated them. The second “meta...
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Ruling Labor: Sidney Hillman and the Politics of Industrial Unionism
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Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (55): 181–189.
Published: 01 January 1993
... and the Rise of American
Labor. New York The Free Press, 1991. $29.95 (cloth).
Few individuals better personify the promise and tragedy of Amer-
ican labor than Sidney Hillman, the immigrant garment worker
who rose to power in the first half of the twentieth century. He
created an influential...
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The Abusable Past
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Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (70): 181–186.
Published: 01 January 1998
...,” with a
“video on how affordable garments are made in good working con-
ditions in the U.S. and overseas
To be sure, the exhibit is also slated to include a section re-creat-
ing the notorious El Monte, California, apartment complex sewing
room, where in 1995 about seventy Thai immigrants were kept...
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The Invisible Seen: What Is Women's Work?
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (58): 188–195.
Published: 01 January 1994
...” of garment workers in
the early twentieth century, Jewish women could address simultane-
ously their individual aspirations and their community’s ideals.
While the story of the garment workers’ strikes between 1909 and
1920 has been told many times before, Glenn gives this burst of
activism...
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Struggling on the Home Front: The Personal, the Political, and Working-Class Women
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Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (64): 105–112.
Published: 01 January 1996
.... Xiaolan Bao's "When
Women Arrived: The Transformation of New York's Chinatown,"
shows how Chinese women, newcomers to Chinatown with changes
in U.S. immigration policy in the postwar period, used jobs in the
garment industry to strengthen their authority at home. Previously,
the relatively small...
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Response to “Cleansing History”
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Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (65): 103–107.
Published: 01 May 1996
... a book about Bill Haywood in
the Boise trial, for helping me puzzle out the situation. To clinch the point, one would
RESPONSE TO “CLEANSING HISTORY”/107
need to look at the coverage of the Pullman strike and, perhaps more to the point, the
New York garment workers...
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Italian-American Radicals and Labor in Rhode Island, 1905–1930
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Radical History Review (1978) 1978 (17): 121–152.
Published: 01 May 1978
... Providence
tailors against the combined hostility of the church,
the foremost newspapers and AFL unions in the state.
The International Ladies Garment Workers Union had hst
won recognition in New York; Boston tailors struck in
sympathy in January, 1913, with five...
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“Redress State” in a Boom/Bust Country
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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (118): 153–157.
Published: 01 January 2014
... was taking place. One-cent coins continually
fell out of my hands and from under my clothes, scattering all over the floor. In the
center of the space I stood up and pulled the garment over my head as more coins
fell from underneath. With hoisted dress, I slowly performed a broken dance — as
if I...
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Editors' Introduction
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Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (88): 1–2.
Published: 01 January 2004
... on the two-
centuries-long history and current realities of U.S. garment sweatshops. At least
since the Enola Gay exhibit of 1995, it has been clear that historical museums (and
especially the Smithsonian!) are terrains of fierce struggle of historical meaning...
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Intellectuals, Audiences and Histories: South African Experiences, 1978–88
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Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (46-47): 237–263.
Published: 01 May 1990
..., and the history of garment workers; and a major
photographic exhibition on working-class life and culture on the
Witwater~rand
At the time, these forays into the field of popular history
seemed innovative and relatively successful. With one exception,
however, the kinds of links generated between...
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Notes on Contributors
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Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (73): 219–220.
Published: 01 January 1999
... Copyright © 1999 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1999 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Daniel E. Bender is a doctoral candidate in the history department at
New York University.He is writing a dissertation on turn-of-the-century
Jewish garment workers in New...
Journal Article
Some are More Equal
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Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (57): 250–257.
Published: 01 October 1993
... garment workers of 1909-10 approached the WTUL because
the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) gave
them the cold shoulder; however, when rich WTUL supporters like
Alva Belmont lost interest in them, their funding evaporated. The
strike ended after three months without winning...
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (88): 218–220.
Published: 01 January 2004
...). A contributor to No Sweat: Fash-
ion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers, ed. Andrew Ross (1997), she has also con-
tributed to Social Text, International Labor and Working-Class History, New Labor Forum, and
Workplace.
R. J...
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South African Labor History: A Historiographical Assessment
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Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (46-47): 213–235.
Published: 01 May 1990
.... and R.E. Simons, Class and Colour in
South Africa 1850-1950 (Harmondsworth, 1%9); E.S. Sachs, Garment Workers in Action:
History of the Garment Workers of South Afriica to 1952, Johannesburg, 1957. There have of
course been other more conservative offerings to ame from within the trade union...
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Hard Times in the New Economy
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Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (90): 79–86.
Published: 01 October 2004
... architecture, the digital divide, viral marketing, and modern artis-
tic lifestyles. He puts his analysis in the context of economic geography and gen-
trification, noting Razorfish’s location in revamped garment lofts. Ross predicts that
like these New York garment...
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U.S. Labor History in Recent Biography
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Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (72): 175–184.
Published: 01 October 1998
... Newman, and
Clara Lemlich Shavelson-who were leaders of various organizations
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including the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and the
Women’s Trade Union League.
As anwtsider to the field of U.S. history...
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