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All together different : Yiddish socialists, garment workers, and the labor roots of multiculturalism /
In the early 1930's, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) organized large numbers of Black and Hispanic workers through a broadly conceived program of education, culture, and community involvement. The ILGWU admitted these new members, the overwhelming majority of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the early 1930's, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) organized large numbers of Black and Hispanic workers through a broadly conceived program of education, culture, and community involvement. The ILGWU admitted these new members, the overwhelming majority of whom were women, into racially integrated local unions and created structures to celebrate ethnic differences. All Together Different revolves around this phenomenon of interracial union building and worker education during the Great Depression. Investigating why immigrant Jewish unionists in the ILGWU appealed to. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-288) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814763667 0814763669 9780814763674 0814763677 9780814748367 0814748368 |