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

Biographical / Historical

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).

Biographical / Historical

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.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS

Preferred Citation

ILGWU. Mid-West Region audio-visual materials #5780/101 AV. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

Related Materials

Related Collections: 5780: ILGWU records 5780/101: ILGWU. Mid-West Region records

SUBJECTS

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
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
What Happened to the American Dream? Political Action Video
Scope and Contents
VHS. 2 copies. Running time: 10:30.
Box 1 Folder 2
Jay Mazur/Rain Fair, Evening News (CBS)
1991
Scope and Contents
VHS. Running time: 3:25. November 24, 1991.
Box 1 Folder 3
UNITE Convention Highlights
1995
Scope and Contents
VHS
Box 1 Folder 4
NY is Fashion
1992
Scope and Contents
VHS. Ruth Glanz Productions, ILGWU. August 1992.
Box 1 Folder 5
The True Cost of NAFTA
1993
Scope and Contents
VHS
Box 1 Folder 6
Convention Dues Debate
1988
Scope and Contents
VHS
Box 1 Folder 7
[No title]
Scope and Contents
VHS. Includes note from Burt King to Stanley Crap
Box 1 Folder 8
ILGWU Department of Labor Hall of Fame
1993
Scope and Contents
VHS
Box 1 Folder 9
International Ladies Garment Workers Union: Its About Jobs
Scope and Contents
VHS
Box 1 Folder 10
McNeill-Lehrer Report; Industrial Homework: Debate with Sue Cowell
1988
Scope and Contents
VHS. Running time: 8:00. December 19, 1988.
Box 1 Folder 11
Cope Senate Group Video, Illinois State AFL-CIO. Sen. Paul Simon
1990
Scope and Contents
VHS. Running time: 10:08. September 21, 1990.
Box 1 Folder 12
ILGWU - UNITE AND FIGHT
Scope and Contents
VHS. 2 copies.
Box 1 Folder 13
Chicago Federation of Labor
Box 1 Folder 14
"We do the Work, Serving Our Future"
Scope and Contents
VHS. Running time: 16:00
Box 1 Folder 15
Carol Mosley Brawn, Braun for U.S. Senate
Scope and Contents
VHS. Coffee Video. Running time: 13:30
Box 1 Folder 16
Secretary of State Literacy Office, Illinois State Library. On the Job; Workplace Literacy and WLS News Story
Scope and Contents
VHS. Running time: 20:34
Box 1 Folder 17
Convention of Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, AFL-CIO, CLC
1995
Box 1 Folder 18
Health Care
1994
Scope and Contents
VHS. Paula Green Advertising, ILGWU, YGWO186: 30. March 18, 1994.
Box 1 Folder 19
ILGWU, Apparel Jobs Abroad
Scope and Contents
VHS. September 27, 1992.
Box 1 Folder 20
UNITE, Words: UN96-107, FACE UN96-109
1996
Scope and Contents
VHS. Running time: :60. January 25, 1996.
Box 1 Folder 21
ILGWU, Apparel Job and Maidenform
1992
Scope and Contents
VHS
Box 1 Folder 22
[No title]
Scope and Contents
Side A- No Description; Side B- InJu: Julio Cesar Guevrero & Jose Santos MTZ. Audiocassette
Box 1 Folder 23
Tecora: Gospel/Labor Music, The tie that binds
Scope and Contents
Audiocassette