Download or read book David Dubinsky a Life with Labor written by David Dubinsky and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Master of Seventh Avenue written by Robert D. Parmet and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Master of Seventh Avenue is the definitive biography of David Dubinsky (1892—1982), one of the most controversial and influential labor leaders in 20th-century America. A “character” in the truest sense of the word, Dubinsky was both revered and reviled, but never dull, conformist, or bound by convention. A Jewish labor radical, Dubinsky fled czarist Poland in 1910 and began his career as a garment worker and union agitator in New York City. He quickly rose through the ranks of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’Union (ILGWU) and became its president in 1932. Dubinsky led the ILGWU for thirty-four years, where he championed “social unionism,” which offered workers benefits ranging from health care to housing. Moving beyond the realm of the ILGWU, Dubinsky also played a leading role in the American Federation of Labor (AFL), particularly during World War II. A staunch anti-communist, Dubinsky worked tirelessly to rid the American labor movement of communists and fellow-travelers. Robert D. Parmet also chronicles Dubinsky’s influential role in local, national, and international politics. An extraordinary personality whose life and times present a fascinating lens into the American labor movement, Dubinsky leaps off the pages of this meticulously researched and vividly detailed biography.
Download or read book David Dubinsky written by David Dubinsky and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1977 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book David Dubinsky written by John Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World of David Dubinsky written by Max D. Danish and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The world of David Dubinsky is a better world for his contributions to it. From the beginning he fought-and is still fighting-to build a good, strong, clean, and democratic garment workers' union, as a part of a comparable trade union movement. It took courage and tenacity, faith and wisdom, imagination and daring. I cannot think of anyone better qualified to write the story of David Dubinsky and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union than Max Danish. As the editor of Justice, the union's militant publication, he served beside his chief with glory of his own. This book is a chronicle of one of labor's proudest achievements."-- Preface by George Meany, President of the AFL-CIO.
Download or read book David Dubinsky written by John Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World of David Dubinsky written by Max D. Danish and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Case Against David Dubinsky written by William Weinstone and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visebog for det norske Studentersamfund written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gentle General written by Elaine Leeder and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-09-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major biography of Rose Pesotta, the organizer and vice president of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) from 1933 to 1944. After moving to the United States from the Ukraine in 1913, Pesotta became involved in the resurgence of the garment workers' industry, women's labor colleges, and labor activism. While working for the union, she confronted serious opposition as a woman and an anarchist within an all-male bureaucracy. This book chronicles Pesotta's life while exploring a number of personal political themes. The author examines Pesotta's relationships and friendships as they reflect the issues of gender, power, and sexuality, paying particular attention to her relationships with Sacco and Vanzetti and with Emma Goldman. In the course of this biography, Leeder portrays the inherent conflicts between anarchism and bureaucratic organization and between female consciousness and male-dominated institutions. The book explores the potential for pragmatic activism by social visionaries and offers clear contextual frameworks within which to compare and contrast Pesotta to others in similar historical roles.
Download or read book David Dubinsky written by J. C. Rich and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book David Dubinsky and the Labor Movement written by Philip Taft and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Murder in the Garment District written by David Witwer and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling and true account of racketeering and union corruption in mid-century New York, when unions and the mob were locked in a power struggle that reverberates to this day In 1949, in New York City's crowded Garment District, a union organizer named William Lurye was stabbed to death by a mob assassin. Through the lens of this murder case, prize-winning authors David Witwer and Catherine Rios explore American labor history at its critical turning point, drawing on FBI case files and the private papers of investigative journalists who first broke the story. A narrative that originates in the garment industry of mid-century New York, which produced over 80 percent of the nation's dresses at the time, Murder in the Garment District quickly moves to a national stage, where congressional anti-corruption hearings gripped the nation and forever tainted the reputation of American unions. Replete with elements of a true-crime thriller, Murder in the Garment District includes a riveting cast of characters, from wheeling and dealing union president David Dubinsky to the notorious gangster Abe Chait and the crusading Robert F. Kennedy, whose public duel with Jimmy Hoffa became front-page news. Deeply researched and grounded in the street-level events that put people's lives and livelihoods at stake, Murder in the Garment District is destined to become a classic work of history—one that also explains the current troubled state of unions in America.
Download or read book Left in the Center written by Daniel Soyer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Soyer's history of the Liberal Party of New York State, Left in the Center, shows the surprising relationship between Democratic Socialism and mainstream American politics. Beginning in 1944 and lasting until 2002, the Liberal Party offered voters an ideological seal of approval and played the role of strategic kingmaker in the electoral politics of New York State. The party helped elect presidents, governors, senators, and mayors, and its platform reflected its founders' social democratic principles. In practical politics, the Liberal Party's power resided in its capacity to steer votes to preferred Democrats or Republicans with a reasonable chance of victory. This uneasy balance between principle and pragmatism, which ultimately proved impossible to maintain, is at the heart of the dramatic political story presented in Left in the Center. The Liberal Party, the longest-lived of New York's small parties, began as a means for anti-Communist social democrats to have an impact on the politics and policy of New York City, Albany, and Washington, DC. It provided a political voice for labor activists, independent liberals, and pragmatic social democrats. Although the party devolved into what some saw as a cynical patronage machine, it remained a model for third-party power and for New York's influential Conservative and, later, the Working Families parties. With an active period ranging from the successful senatorial career of Jacob Javits to the mayoralties of John Lindsay and Rudy Giuliani, the Liberal Party effectively shaped the politics and policy of New York. The practical gains and political cost of that complicated trade-off is at the heart of Left in the Center.
Download or read book Sweatshop Strife written by Ruth A. Frager and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of the twentieth century, many of Toronto's immigrant Jews eked out a living in the needle-trade sweatshops of Spadina Avenue. In response to their expliotation on the shop floor, immigrant Jewish garment workers built one of the most advanced sections of the Canadian and American labour movements. Much more than a collective bargaining agency, Toronto's Jewish labour movement had a distinctly socialist orientation and grew out of a vibrant Jewish working-class culture. Ruth Frager examines the development of this unique movement, its sources of strength, and its limitations, focusing particularly on the complex interplay of class, ethnic, and gender interests and identities in the history of the movement. She examines the relationships between Jewish workers and Jewish manufacturers as well as relations between Jewish and non-Jewish workers and male and female workers in the city's clothing industry. In its prime, Toronto's Jewish labour movement struggled not only to improve hard sweatshop condistions but also to bring about a fundamental socialist transformation. It was an uphill battle. Drastic economic downturns, hard employer offensives, and state repressions all worked against unionists' workplace demands. Ethnic, gender, and ideological divisions weakened the movement and were manipulated by employers and their allies. Drawing on her knowledge of Yiddish, Frager has been able to gain access to original records that shed new light on an important chapter in Canadian ethnic, labour, and women's history.
Download or read book David Dubinsky Testimonial Dinner written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When the Old Left Was Young written by Robert Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the first mass student movement in American history - a crusade led largely by young Communists in the Depression era. Caused by the economic crisis of the 1930's, it was both an anti-war campaign and a movement championing an egalitarian vision of the welfare state.
