Katie Quan ILGWU Memorabilia
Collection Number: 6036/095 MB
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
Katie Quan ILGWU Memorabilia,
1983
Collection Number:
6036/095 MB
Creator:
Quan, Katie;
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU)
Quantity:
1.2 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Memorabilia, buttons (information artifacts),
badges.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
This collection consists of ILGWU memorabilia collected by
Katie Quan, Senior Fellow at the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
and former seamstress and member of the ILGWU.
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.
Katie Quan is a senior fellow at the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and
Education. In 2010 she co-founded the International Center for Joint Labor Research
at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, and was its co-director for four
years. In 2014 she received a Fulbright grant to study the apparel supply chain in
China at Peking University. Katie has recently consulted with the International
Labour Organization on industrial relations reform in Vietnam.
Prior to joining the staff of the Labor Center in 1998, Katie Quan was a seamstress,
organizer, and international vice-president with the International Ladies' Garment
Workers' Union, and its successor, UNITE. In 1992 she chaired the founding
convention of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance. She has volunteered as a
board director for many labor organizations, including the Worker Rights Consortium,
the International Labor Rights Forum, Sweatshop Watch, and the Labor Project for
Working Families.
This collection contains various pieces of memorabilia collected by labor organizer,
Katie Quan. Some of the items included in this collection are small American flags
and union memorabilia such as paper hats, dues books, sewing kits, rain hats, and
aprons.
Names:
Quan, Katie
Coalition of Labor Union Women (U.S.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Local 23-25
Form and Genre Terms:
Memorabilia
buttons (information artifacts)
badges
Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a
reference archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet
and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
Katie Quan ILGWU Memorabilia #6036/095 MB. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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23-25 ; Local 23-25 (Chinese Lettering) ; 88 (Chinese Lettering) ; The Union
for me I.L.G.W.U. ; Stop Exporting Jobs Limit Imports ; Save Our Jobs Veto
the Veto ILGWU ; I did the Dodd's Dip for the ILG in Florida, 1983
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Steward, Int'l. Ladies' Garment Workers Union ; Guest, On the MOVE ; ILGWU
for Dinkins ; ILGWU Says: Dukakis Yes ; ILGWU Mondale/Ferraro ;
Carter/Mondale ; 3 ILGWU lapel pins ; Service & Justice
lapel pin ; ILGWU button
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