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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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Bread and Roses: A Response
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Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (65): 84–90.
Published: 01 May 1996
...-
mination to join unions.
Those leading assumptions have persisted hardily, in one form or
another, until the present. Outside the left literature, the heroes of
the labor movement have generally been those like ILGWU leader
David Dubinsky, who guided unions from the dangers of radicalism...
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Our Left
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (58): 206–212.
Published: 01 January 1994
... southern activist Audley “Queen Mother” Moore,
Proletarian Party leader John Keracher, or ILGWU stalwart Pauline
Newman. Outside of individual writer‘s preferences, sectarianism in
the traditional sense does not intrude, unlike other efforts (the one
exception that proves the rule is the 1970s...
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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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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
... Kitty Krupat, former Educational Director at the ILGWU;
Nat Spero, former Research Director of United Electrical Workers; Lucie-
Me Muller, a counselor at the WEEC and a specialist in adult education;
and Cara Murray, a writing instructor, who later taught the writing
component of the project...
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Imagining Racial Equality: Local 65’s Union Photographers, Postwar Civil Rights, and the Power of the Real, 1940–1955
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Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (132): 96–125.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., segregation, or “separate racial seniority lines” resulting in race-based labor segmentation. According to Nelson Lichtenstein, “Nothing infuriated [Hill] more than the complacency, condescension, presumption, and outright racism that he found in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU...
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The Abusable Past
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Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (43): 136–144.
Published: 01 January 1989
..., get Donald Trump to
finance it, Howard Fast to write it, and Barbara Streisand to narrate
it? Call it Rent2 and distribute the proceeds to the ILGWU or-
ganizers working the nearby Chinatown sweatshops.
Cantor's Complaint
Norman's back! Not Norman Bates, that is, but Norman Can...
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Jews and American Communism: The Cultural Question
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Radical History Review (1980) 1980 (23): 9–33.
Published: 01 May 1980
... who remained. Party
zealousness to exacerbate class conflict resulted in a disastrous defeat
for Communists in the ILGWU. The "Bolshevization" of the party,
formally dissolving the f oreign-language groups, removed much of
the Yiddishists' autonomy, The Freiheit defense of the Comintern's...
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Spies Everywhere
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Radical History Review (1997) 1997 (67): 187–198.
Published: 01 January 1997
..., both personally seductive and full of betrayals.
Siding with the wrong faction of the Comintern, he lost his position
in 1928 and reorganized his group of ”Right Communists” or
”Lovestoneites” around the leadership of New York’s ILGWU Local
22. As The Secret World reveals, Lovestone...
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The Great American (Marxist) Novel
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Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (31): 5–21.
Published: 01 December 1984
... and domination he
struggled against in Russia. At the same time their
children contend with new social formations shaping
their futures. The eldest daughter, Sarah, becomes a
socialist and trade-union activist, organizes for the
ILGWU, and emerges as a leader in the 1909 strike only...
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Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People's Debts: An Interview with David Graeber
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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (118): 159–173.
Published: 01 January 2014
... at a brazier factory. She was in the ILGWU
(International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union). At the time, they went to a seven-
hour day. The union manager got that through, so they had all these union activities
in their free time, and one of them they decided [was] to put on a musical comedy...
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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
...,
including the Italian-American business agent of the
Building Trades Laborers, poured their abuse upon the
strike, state AFL president warning members "You must
be either for or against the IWW General Secre-
tary of the ILGWU, John Dyche, made a special trip...
