Women's clothing industry -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
ILGWU Communications Department Biography Files
Collection
Identifier: 5780/177
Abstract
Biographical files on union members, union officers, and political and public figures.
Dates:
0000-2999
International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Benjamin Schlesinger, President. Records
Collection
Identifier: 5780/009
Abstract
Correspondence, form letters, circulars and subject files relating to Schlesinger's second term as president, June 1914 to January 1923. Topics covered in these materials include union organizing; strikes, labor disputes, working conditions, and other labor issues in the women's garment industry, particularly in New York City; inter-union relations; relations between manufacturers' associations and the union; efforts by Schlesinger and others to form an alliance of garment workers' unions;...
Dates:
1914-1923.