Title: The women's garment workers; a history of the International ladies' garment worker's union,
Authors: Lorwin, Lewis L. 1883-1970.
Publisher: B. W. Huebsch, inc.,
Year: 1924
Subjects: International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union; Clothing workers Labor unions History.
Contents: Part I. Beginnings and backgrounds. Industrial beginnings -- Early conditions, 1860-1880 -- Enter the contractor, 1880-1890 -- The sweat-shop -- Intellectuals and workers -- Early strikes and unions, 1880-1888 -- "Recognition" and the first lock-out, 1889-1890 -- Trials, prisons and pardons, 1890-1892 -- The International Cloak-Makers' Union of America, 1892-93 -- Factional strife and dual unions, 1890-94 -- The "ten commandments," 1894 -- The United Brotherhood of Cloak-Makers, 1895-1900 -- Cloak-makers' unions outside of New York, 1895-1900 -- Unions in other branches of the industry, 1890-1900 -- The birth of the international, 1900 -- Part II. Darkness and revolt, 1900-1910. Prosperity and "progress," 1900-04 -- The "tide of reaction," 1904-06 -- The International versus the Industrial Workers of the World, 1905-07 -- Two significant strikes, 1907 -- Darkness and dawn, 1907-09 -- The "Uprising of the Twenty Thousand," 1909-10 -- The "Great Revolt," 1910 -- Part III. Protocolism : a promise of peace and progress, 1910-16. The first fruits of the protocol, 1910-11 -- The Cleveland Strike, 1911 -- The women workers adopt protocolism, 1911-13 -- Crisis and compromise, 1913-14 -- The right to the job, 1914-15 -- The new advance and the end of protocolism, 1915-16 -- Part IV. Recent changes and present trends. Expansion and reform, 1917-20 -- Weathering the storm, 1921-24 -- The Cleveland experiment -- The new industrial situation -- The new industrial programme -- The International to-day -- Sanitation, health, benefits -- Education and recreation -- Facing the future.