ILGWU Abraham Rosenberg "Memoirs of a Cloak Maker, 1882-1910" on Microfilm, 1883-1910
Collection Number: 5780/159 mf
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
ILGWU Abraham Rosenberg "Memoirs of a Cloak Maker, 1882-1910" on Microfilm, 1883-1910
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5780/159 mf
Abstract:
This collection consists of a microfilm copy of Abraham Rosenberg's Memoirs of a Cloak
Maker.
Creator:
Rosenberg, Abraham
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Horn, Yetta
Quanitities:
0.11 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was once one of the largest labor
unions in the United States founded in 1900 by local union delegates representing
about 2,000 members in cities in the northeastern United States. It was one of the
first U.S. Unions to have a membership consisting of mostly females, and it played
a key role in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s. The union is generally referred
to as the "ILGWU" or the "ILG". The ILGWU grew in geographical scope, membership size,
and political influence to become one of the most powerful forces in American organized
labor by mid-century. Representing workers in the women's garment industry, the ILGWU
worked to improve working and living conditions of its members through collective
bargaining agreements, training programs, health care facilities, cooperative housing,
educational opportunities, and other efforts. The ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated
Clothing and Textile Workers Union in 1995 to form the Union of Needle trades, Industrial
and Textile Employees (UNITE). UNITE merged with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant
Employees Union (HERE) in 2004 to create a new union known as UNITE HERE. The two
unions that formed UNITE in 1995 represented only 250,000 workers between them, down
from the ILGWU's peak membership of 450,000 in 1969.
Abraham Rosenberg arrived in the United States from Russia in 1883. He served as president
of the ILGWU from 1908 to 1914, and later worked as an organizer with the union.
This collection is the microfilm version of 5780/159, and is a microfilm copy of Abraham
Rosenberg's Memoirs of a Cloak Maker, 1881-1910, translated by Yetta Horn.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
ILGWU Abraham Rosenberg "Memoirs of a Cloak Maker, 1882-1910" on Microfilm #5780/159
mf. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University
Library.
Names:
Horn, Yetta
Rosenberg, Abraham.
Subjects:
Women's clothing industry -- United States.
Clothing industry -- Labor unions -- United States.
Clothing workers -- United States
Industrial relations -- United States
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Reel 1 |
Memoirs of a Cloak Maker. 1883-1910.
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Reel 1 |
Memoirs of a Cloak Maker.
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1883-1910 | |
Scope and Contents
239 pages.
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