Boston Workmen's Circle, Triangle Fire Centennial Show: "The Cloth From Which We Are
Cut", 2011
Collection Number: 6036/094 AV
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Boston Workmen's Circle, Triangle Fire Centennial Show: "The Cloth From Which We Are
Cut", 2011
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6036/094 AV
Abstract:
This collection consists of an audio CD and the script, program, flyers, and photographs
from A Besere Velt's performance of "The Cloth from Which We Are Cut: A Commemoration
of the 100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire." The performance
was part of the Boston Jewish Music Festival, on March 6, 2011.
Creator:
Boston Workmen's Circle Center for Jewish Culture and Social Justice
A Besere Velt (A Better World)
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.
A Besere Velt, Yiddish for "A Better World," is an 80-member intergenerational community
chorus that performs Yiddish folk music. Founded in 1997, A Besere Velt has performed
throughout New England and New York and released its debut CD in 2006.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
Boston Workmen's Circle, Triangle Fire Centennial Show: "The Cloth From Which We Are
Cut" #6036/094 AV. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Boston Workmen's Circle Center for Jewish Culture and Social Justice
A Besere Velt Chorus
Boston Jewish Music Festival
Triangle Shirtwaist Company -- Fire, 1911
Subjects:
Clothing trade--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century
Fires--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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A Besere Velt (audio CD)
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"The Cloth from Which We Are Cut"
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2011 |
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Format: CD/DVD
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Scope and Contents
Triangle Fire Centennial Show, Boston Jewish Music Festival, March 6, 2011
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| Box 2 | 1 |
Script, program, flyers, and photographs
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2011 |
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Scope and Contents
from the Boston Jewish Music Festival, March 6, 2011.
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