A power among them
Subtitle: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
By: Karen Pastorello.
Series: The working class in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780252032301
Subjects: Hillman, Bessie.; Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.; Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- United States -- History.; Women clothing workers -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-258) and index.
Table of contents: value: Bound but determined (1889-1908); value: "A mighty hard struggle" in Chicago (1908-1911); value: The founding of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and the search for solidarity (1911-1918); value: Strong on the outside: the union, women, and the struggle to survive (1918-1933); value: Enter Sister Hillman: the runaway campaign years (1933-1937); value: The power of labor feminism: organizing the laundry workers and the Second World War (1937-1946); value: Union women in the postwar years: separate but not equal (1946-1961); value: Creating "a sort of revolution" (1961-1970); value: Epilogue: lifting their spirits; value: Notes; value: Index.