ILGWU. Mid-West Region audio-visual materials, 1988-1996
Collection Number: 5780/101 AV
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
ILGWU. Mid-West Region audio-visual materials, 1988-1996
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5780/101 AV
Abstract:
This collection contains audio-visual material that was either produced by or featured
the ILGWU. Included are videos from ILGWU conventions and videos about the garment
industry in the United States.
Creator:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Quanitities:
1.22 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Founded in 1900 by local union delegates representing about 2,000 members in cities
in the northeastern United States, the ILGWU grew in geographical scope, membership
size, 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. In 1995, the ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated
Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial
and Textile Employees (UNITE).
From its earliest years, the ILGWU was involved in organizing women's garment workers
in Chicago, and efforts to gain members in the city and throughout the Midwest continued
throughout the union's existence. The Midwest Region represented workers in Chicago
and much of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Iowa.
Morris Bialis was the ILGWU's longtime representative in the Midwest, Manager of
the Chicago Joint Board, and the Midwest Region Director from 1922 to 1976. Harold
Schwartz served as regional director from 1976 to 1978. Schwartz was succeeded by
Lou Montenegro, who held the post until his retirement in 1990. Stanley Gross was
Midwest Region Director at the time of the ILGWU's merger with ACTWU in 1995.
The collection consists of VHS tapes produced or featuring the ILGWU. Many of the
video recordings contain newscast segments, particularly when the ILGWU or someone
from the union appeared on the nightly news. There are also political videos and recordings
of conventions, union appeared on the nightly news.
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference
archivist for access to these materials.
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
ILGWU. Mid-West Region audio-visual materials #5780/101 AV. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 5780: ILGWU records 5780/101: ILGWU. Mid-West Region records
Names:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. -- Midwest Region.
Subjects:
Women's clothing industry -- United States.
Labor unions -- Clothing workers -- 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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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
What Happened to the American Dream? Political Action Video
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Scope and Contents
VHS. 2 copies. Running time: 10:30.
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Jay Mazur/Rain Fair, Evening News (CBS)
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1991 |
Scope and Contents
VHS. Running time: 3:25. November 24, 1991.
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
UNITE Convention Highlights
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1995 |
Scope and Contents
VHS
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
NY is Fashion
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1992 |
Scope and Contents
VHS. Ruth Glanz Productions, ILGWU. August 1992.
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
The True Cost of NAFTA
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1993 |
Scope and Contents
VHS
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Convention Dues Debate
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1988 |
Scope and Contents
VHS
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
[No title]
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Scope and Contents
VHS. Includes note from Burt King to Stanley Crap
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
ILGWU Department of Labor Hall of Fame
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1993 |
Scope and Contents
VHS
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
International Ladies Garment Workers Union: Its About Jobs
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Scope and Contents
VHS
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
McNeill-Lehrer Report; Industrial Homework: Debate with Sue Cowell
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1988 |
Scope and Contents
VHS. Running time: 8:00. December 19, 1988.
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Cope Senate Group Video, Illinois State AFL-CIO. Sen. Paul Simon
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1990 |
Scope and Contents
VHS. Running time: 10:08. September 21, 1990.
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
ILGWU - UNITE AND FIGHT
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Scope and Contents
VHS. 2 copies.
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Chicago Federation of Labor
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
"We do the Work, Serving Our Future"
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Scope and Contents
VHS. Running time: 16:00
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Carol Mosley Brawn, Braun for U.S. Senate
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Scope and Contents
VHS. Coffee Video. Running time: 13:30
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Secretary of State Literacy Office, Illinois State Library. On the Job; Workplace
Literacy and WLS News Story
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Scope and Contents
VHS. Running time: 20:34
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Convention of Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, AFL-CIO, CLC
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1995 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Health Care
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1994 |
Scope and Contents
VHS. Paula Green Advertising, ILGWU, YGWO186: 30. March 18, 1994.
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Box 1 | Folder 19 |
ILGWU, Apparel Jobs Abroad
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Scope and Contents
VHS. September 27, 1992.
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Box 1 | Folder 20 |
UNITE, Words: UN96-107, FACE UN96-109
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1996 |
Scope and Contents
VHS. Running time: :60. January 25, 1996.
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Box 1 | Folder 21 |
ILGWU, Apparel Job and Maidenform
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1992 |
Scope and Contents
VHS
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Box 1 | Folder 22 |
[No title]
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Scope and Contents
Side A- No Description; Side B- InJu: Julio Cesar Guevrero & Jose Santos MTZ. Audiocassette
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Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Tecora: Gospel/Labor Music, The tie that binds
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Scope and Contents
Audiocassette
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