ACWA Rochester Joint Board Records
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Abstract
Meeting minutes, 1919-1932; Broadsides, 1966
Dates
- 1920-1966
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Biographical / Historical
The Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America coordinated union activities in the Rochester, N.Y. area.
In 1915, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) embarked on a large-scale organizing drive in Rochester, N.Y. After four years of extensive organizing, the union succeeded in forcing the Rochester Clothiers' Exchange (the main organization of employers) into adopting a 44-hour workweek. By 1929, the union had succeeded in unionizing over 12,000 of Rochester's clothing workers.
Extent
1 cubic feet
Quantity:
1 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Broadsides (notices), minutes (administrative records) .
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183> kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- R. Miles, October 13, 2010
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, February 23, 2017
- Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
- Bakery Strike, Syracuse, N.Y., 1925.
- Clothing Workers' Strike, Buffalo, N.Y., 1919.
- Clothing industry -- Economic aspects -- United States
- Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- Rochester
- Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- Factionalism
- Clothing workers -- New York (State)
- Collective bargaining -- Clothing industry -- New York (State) -- Rochester
- General Strike, Passaic, N.J., 1926.
- Grievance procedures -- Clothing industry -- New York (State) -- Rochester
- Italian Americans -- New York (State) -- Rochester
- Labor unions -- Jurisdictional disputes -- New York (State) -- Rochester
- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- Social activity
- Labor unions -- United States -- Social action
- Labor unions and communism -- United States
- Labor unions and fascism -- Italy
- Labor unions and foreign policy -- United States
- Off Pressers' Strike, Rochester, N.Y., 1927.
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1924
- Racketeering -- United States
- Sacco-Vanzetti case.
- Sex discrimination in employment -- United States
- Silk Workers' Strike, Paterson, N.J., 1924.
- Socialist Party (U.S.)
- Stein Block Sitdown Strike, Rochester, N.Y., 1927.
- Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing industry -- New York (State) -- Rochester
- Strikes and lockouts -- Men's clothing industry -- United States
- United Mine Workers' Strike, United States, 1926.
- United Shoe Workers' Strike, United States, 1922.
- United Shoe Workers' Strike, United States, 1926.
- United States -- Emigration and immigration
- Wages -- Clothing industry -- New York (State) -- Rochester
- Women labor union members -- United States
- Title
- ACWA Rochester Joint Board Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by R. Miles
- Date
- February 23, 2017
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853