The Jewish unions in America : pages of history and memories /
"Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the strugg...
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Table of Contents:
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- Introduction / Maurice Wolfthal
- The Jewish Unions in America: Pages of History and Memories / Bernard Weinstein
- The First Jewish Immigrants in the United States ; How the Jewish Immigrants of the 1880s Earned a Living ; The First Jewish Workers in the American Trade Unions ; The First "Radicals" Among the Jewish Immigrants of the 1880s and the Beginning of the Jewish Labor Movement in America ; The Strange Case of Comrade Wolf ; Hymie "the American" ; The First Jewish Theater Choristers' Union ; The Jewish Actors' Union ; The Yiddish Varieties ; The Jewish Typesetters' Union ; The Founding of the United Hebrew Trades of New York ; How We Organized Strikes ; The Panic of 1893 and the First Splits Within the Jewish Labor Movement ; The Schism in the Socialist Labor Party ; The First Years of the Jewish Labor Movement in Philadelphia ; The Beginning of the Jewish Labor Movement in Chicago ; The Unions of the Cap and Millinery Trade ; The Millinery Trade and the Union ; The History of the Tailors in the Men's Clothing Industry ; The Struggle of the Tailors' Union Against the Plague of the "Open Shops" ; The Custom Tailors' Union ; The Story of the Knee-Pants Makers' Union ; The Union of the Children's Jacket Makers ; The Union of the Basted Children's Jacket Pressers ; The Union of the Unbasted Children's Jacket Makers ; The Pants Makers' Union of New York ; The Vest Makers' Union in New York ; The Shirt Makers' Union ; The Great Garment Workers' Strike of 1913 in New York ; How the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America Was Founded ; The Women's Garment Unions in America ; The Jamaica Incident and Other Trials ; The Cloak Makers' Unions in Other Cities ; The First Jewish Unions of Waist Makers, Wrapper Makers, Buttonhole Makers, Embroidery Workers, and Other Ladies' Garment Workers ; The Birth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union ; The Strike of 300 Skirt Makers Against the Firm of John Bonwit in 1905 ; The Industrial Workers of the World Also Founds a Cloak Makers' Union ; The Reefer Makers' Strike of 1907 ; The Historic General Strike of the 18,000 Waist Makers in 1909 ; The Great Cloak Makers' Strike of 1910 and the Founding of the Largest Jewish Union ; The First Years After the Strike ; The General Strike of the Cleveland Cloak Makers in 1911 ; The Triangle Fire ; The Protocol of the New York Ladies' Waist and Dress Makers' Union of 1913 ; The General Strike of the Wrapper, Kimono, and Housedress Makers and the White Goods Workers of 1913 ; The Hourwich Affair and the First Civil War in the Cloak Makers' Union ; The Organizing Work of the ILGWU in Other Cities from 1915 to 1919 ; The Breaking of the Protocol and the Strikes of 1916, 1919, and 1921 ; The General Strike of the Dress Makers in 1923 ; The Ladies' Tailors' Union of New York ; The Raincoat Workers' Union ; The Struggle with the Communists in the Joint Action Committee ; The General Strike of 1926 and the Expulsion of the Communists ; The Rebirth of the Cloak Makers' Union ; The Jewish Bakers' Unions ; The 1927 Bakers' Strike Against Two Big Firms, Pechter and Messing ; The Jewish Bakers' Unions in Other Cities ; The Furriers' Union ; The Founding of the International Fur Workers' Union ; The Union of Jewish Painters ; The Pocketbook Makers' Union ; The Suitcase Workers' Union ; The Trunk Makers' Union ; The Neckwear Makers' Union ; The Union of Cleaners and Dyers ; The Union of Mattress and Bed Spring Makers ; The Seltzer Workers' Union of New York ; The Union of Clerks and Retail Dress-Goods Stores ; The Union of Grocery Clerks ; The Union of Jewish Waiters ; The Union of Paper Box Makers ; The Union of Jewish Barbers ; The Union of Jewish Shoemakers ; The Union of Jewish Tin Workers ; The Union of Jewelry Workers ; The Union of Butcher Workers ; The Union of Jewish Newspaper Writers in New York ; The Union of Jewish Bookbinders ; The Jewish Laundry Workers (The Steam Laundry Workers' Union) ; The Union of Wet-Wash Laundry Drivers ; The Pressers of Old Shirts in Hand Laundries ; The Union of Jewish Inside Iron Workers ; The Union of Jewish Furniture Drivers ; The Union of Workers with Live and Kosher-Slaughter Fowl ; The Little Unions ; The Disappeared Unions ; The New Generation of Jewish Workers in America ; The Jewish Carpenters and Wood Workers ; Jewish Plumbers ; Jewish Moving Picture Operators ; Jewish Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers ; Jewish Metal Workers and Machinists ; Jewish Workers in Radio and Aviation ; Jewish Drivers of Cars and Taxis ; Conclusion.