40th Anniversary International Ladies Garment Workers Union Convention Badge, 1940
date: label: Date made
content: 1940
notes: label: Description
content: Demand for inexpensive, mass-produced women’s clothing spurred the rise of early garment factories. The ILGWU was formed in 1900 by bringing together several smaller local unions to fight to end sweatshop production, higher wages, and improve working conditions in the cities where the garment factories were located. Building on the success of the 1909 New York City shirtwaist makers’ strike and the 1910 New York cloakmakers’ strike the union quickly grew to be one of the strongest labor organizations in the country. This guest badge for the 40th anniversary ILGWU convention includes a silver-colored medallion in the shape of a spool of thread.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: Labor Unions
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content: Many Voices, One Nation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Legislative Branch, Library of Congress, Exchange and Gift Division
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0374.71
label: accession number
content: 1984.0374
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0374.71
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ribbon, Convention
label: Object Name
content: badge, convention
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 1 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 3.81 cm