A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (Working Class in American History)
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A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (Working Class in American History)

A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (Working Class in American History)

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Karen Pastorello (Author)  

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Karen Pastorello's pathbreaking biography of Bessie Abramowitz Hillman places this remarkable labor leader and Progressive Era activist at the center of the founding of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Bridging the gap between Progressive social feminism and the labor feminists of the post-World War II period, Hillman worked to end race and class injustice and improve the quality of life for working women, even as she was overshadowed by her husband, union leader Sidney Hillman. Interweaving Hillman's experiences as an Eastern European Jewish immigrant with a rich historical account of the founding and development of a key garment union, Pastorello reveals the prominent role of women labor activists in both the workplace and union leadership. 16 photographs CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Karen Pastorello chairs the Women and Gender Studies Program and is a professor of history at Tompkins Cortland Community College. She is the author of The Progressives: Activism and Reform in American Society, 1893-1917.
  • Contributor: Karen Pastorello
  • Imprint: University of Illinois Press
  • ISBN13: 9780252032301
  • Number of Pages: 304
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x28mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Release Date: 2008-02-19
  • Series: Working Class in American History
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Karen Pastorello chairs the Women and Gender Studies Program and is a professor of history at Tompkins Cortland Community College. She is the author of The Progressives: Activism and Reform in American Society, 1893-1917.

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