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Labor laws and legislation -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

ILGWU Legal Department Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/107
Abstract

The collection contains files relating to the ILGWU's organizing and legal activities surrounding the Kellwood Company at several of its divisions throughout the southern United States through court documents, correspondence, clippings, organizing leaflets, and accounts and interviews of the strike.

Dates: 1958-1980

ILGWU. New York Cloak Joint Board records

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/020
Abstract

The New York Cloak Joint Board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, represented a number of New York City local unions whose members were employed as cloak makers. The collection contains reports, photographs, and the correspondence of three of its managers Israel Feinberg, Isidore Nagler and Henoch Mendelsund.

Dates: 1926-1978

National Women's Trade Union League of America Records on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5709 mf
Abstract

These records include correspondence, reports, speeches, notes, printed matter, minutes of meetings, proceedings of the League and of the International Congress of Working Women, biographical material on the League's officers, and correspondence between the National League and its local branches. Major issues covered include the eight-hour day, minimum wage, establishment of sanitary work areas, federal aid to education, civil rights, price controls and social security.

Dates: 1903-1950