Boston Workmen's Circle, Triangle Fire Centennial Show: "The Cloth From Which We Are Cut"
Collection Number: 6036/094 AV
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
Boston Workmen's Circle, Triangle
Fire Centennial Show: "The Cloth From Which We Are Cut", 2011
Collection Number:
6036/094 AV
Creator:
Boston Workmen's Circle Center
for Jewish Culture and Social Justice;
A Besere Velt (A Better World)
A Besere Velt (A Better World)
Quantity:
0.1 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records, audiovisual material.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
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.
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.
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
Form and Genre Terms:
Records
Audiovisual material
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:
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.
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Format: CD/DVD
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Triangle Fire Centennial Show, Boston Jewish Music Festival, March 6,
2011
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from the Boston Jewish Music Festival, March 6, 2011.
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