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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Robert P. Wolensky (Katz Distinguished Professor, Univ. Wisconsin, Stevens Point)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9780271084909ISBN 10: 0271084901 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 14 January 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Garment Industry 1. Dorothy “Dot” Ney: Garment Worker, Union Organizer, and Business Agent 2. William “Bill” Cherkes: Garment Shop Owner and Garment Association President 3. Minnie “Min” Matheson: Labor Leader, Social Activist, and ILGWU District Director 4. Angelo “Rusty” “Bill” DePasquale: Mineworker and ILGWU Organizer and “Enforcer” 5. Anthony “Tony” D’Angelo: Garment Presser and Barber 6. Alice Reca: Garment Worker, Union Organizer, and Business Agent 7. John “Johnny” Justin: Garment Worker, Labor Organizer, and ILGWU District Director 8. Clementine “Clem” Lyons: Garment Worker, Business Agent, and Chorus Performer and Director Image Gallery 9. Helen Weiss: Garment Worker, Business Agent, and Chorus Performer 10. George and Lucy Zorgo: Union Printers and Labor Advocates 11. Philomena “Minnie” Caputo: Garment Worker, Union Activist, Chairlady, and Floorlady 12. Dr. Albert Schiowitz: Physician and Director of the Wyoming Valley ILGWU Health Center 13. Leo Gutstein: Family Garment Shop Owner and Garment Association President 14. Pearl Novak: Garment Worker, Union Organizer, and Social Activist 15. Betty Greenberg: Mother, Spouse, Activist, and the Mathesons’Daughter 16. Labor, Working-Class, Gender, and Oral History Appendix 1: The Wyoming Valley Oral Histories Appendix 2: Glossary of Selected Terms Appendix 3: Biographical Sketches Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAn important contribution to US labor history and twentieth-century US history. The interviews offer nuanced views and multiple perspectives on labor struggles in the region, offering particularly new and valuable views of the influence of geography on industrial development and the growth of the trade union movement and showing why we need a broad view to understand even local industrial history. -Thomas Dublin, author of The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century A detailed yet readable study of the lives of the garment industry. This is a fine social history of ordinary people that brings the past to life. -Richard A. Greenwald, author of The Triangle Fire, Protocols Of Peace, and Industrial Democracy In Progressive Era New York An important contribution to US labor history and twentieth-century US history. The interviews offer nuanced views and multiple perspectives on labor struggles in the region, offering particularly new and valuable views of the influence of geography on industrial development and the growth of the trade union movement and showing why we need a broad view to understand even local industrial history. -Thomas Dublin, author of The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century A detailed yet readable study of the lives of the garment industry. This is a fine social history of ordinary people that brings the past to life. -Richard A. Greenwald, -Richard A. Greenwald, author of The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy In Progressive Era New YorkThe Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy In Progressive Era New York An important contribution to US labor history and twentieth-century US history. The interviews offer nuanced views and multiple perspectives on labor struggles in the region, offering particularly new and valuable views of the influence of geography on industrial development and the growth of the trade union movement and showing why we need a broad view to understand even local industrial history. -Thomas Dublin, author of The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century A detailed yet readable study of the lives of the garment industry. This is a fine social history of ordinary people that brings the past to life. -Richard A. Greenwald, author of The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy In Progressive Era New York A detailed yet readable study of the lives of the garment industry. This is a fine social history of ordinary people that brings the past to life. -Richard A. Greenwald, author of The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York An important contribution to US labor history and twentieth-century US history. The interviews offer nuanced views and multiple perspectives on labor struggles in the region, offering particularly new and valuable views of the influence of geography on industrial development and the growth of the trade union movement and showing why we need a broad view to understand even local industrial history. -Thomas Dublin, author of The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century Taking the measure, Wolensky has produced a valuable and informative work. It will serve as an important primary source, giving insights into not only the Wyoming Valley but also eastern Pennsylvania, its economy, its people, and the mores of the era it covers. -Richard P. Mulcahy, Pennsylvania History Author InformationRobert P. Wolensky is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point and Adjunct Professor of History at King’s College, Wilkes-Barre. He is the coauthor of Fighting for the Union Label: The Women’s Garment Industry and the ILGWU in Pennsylvania, also published by Penn State University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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