and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
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I thought that this book, at the interaction of Jewish and labor and
women's history, might be of some people "here.} Share as appropriate.
>> Arieh Lebowitz
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Please join us for another exciting book talk co-sponsored by NYUs
Tamiment Library
& Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives and the New York Labor History Association.
Dr. Karen Pastorello will discuss and sign copies of her new book
A POWER AMONG THEM: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
WHEN
Friday, October 24, 2008 from 6-8pm
WHERE
Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
70 Washington Square South, NYU Bobst Library, 10th Floor
INFO
212-998-2428
Dr. Pastorello will present a lively discussion of the extraordinary
life and times of labor
activist, immigrant, and feminist Bessie Abramowitz Hillman. Her
path-breaking study is
the first biography of Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the first
scholarship to place this remarkable leader at the center of the
founding of ACWA -- the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.
Bridging the gap between progressive-era social feminists and labor
feminists of the postwar era, Hillman worked to end race and class
injustice and improve the quality of life for working women in
partnership with her husband, ACWA union leader Sidney Hillman.
Interweaving Hillmans experiences as an Eastern European Jewish
immigrant with a rich historical account of the founding and
development of a key garment union, Pastorello reveals the prominent
role of women labor activists both in the workplace and in the
unions. (excerpt: Google book search)
Published by University of Illinois Press, Chicago
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