{"product_id":"fighting-for-the-union-label-the-womens-garment-industry-and-the-ilgwu-in-pennsylvania-9780271021683","title":"Fighting for the Union Label The Womens Garment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of how workers in the Wyoming Valley, led by Min Lurye Matheson and her husband, Bill, banded together and built one of the largest and most activist movements of garment workers in the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) vast network.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Wolenskys tell the important story of the building of the ILGWU among runaway garment firms in the Wyoming Valley. \u003ci\u003eFighting for the Union Label\u003c\/i\u003e is a very significant addition to our understanding of the garment industry in the twentieth century, union organizing among women garment workers, and the deindustrialization in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Thomas Dublin,State University of New York at Binghamton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An absorbing biography of a labor movement that fought for workers’ rights for decades, only to see membership decline as the volume of imported apparel rose.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Mary O. Bradley \u003ci\u003eHarrisburg Patriot News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFighting for the Union Label \u003c\/i\u003eis more than the story about the textiles industry in the coal fields; it is an important record of hundreds of thousands of coal region women who went to work to support their families when the mining industry was declining. It is the story of the passion and the resilience of coal crackers: hardworking, honest, industrious men and woman all.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Christine Goldbeck \u003ci\u003eAnthracite History Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is a significant addition to the history of the U. S. garment industry and labor movement. By focusing on the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania from the 1940s to the 1960s, the Wolenskys have integrated a ‘non-New York’ story into the canonical history of the ILGWU.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Xiaolan Bao \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A bit academic but an excellent read in spite of that.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Linda Brazill \u003ci\u003eCapital Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It is an important book for three reasons. First, to their credit, the authors have broken out of the New York-Chicago-Los Angeles approach to the industry. Second, this book could easily be used in undergraduate courses. By telling the story of workers in the Keystone State in their own voices, it gives students a means of entering their world in a way too few labor histories are capable of. And last, it reminds us of what Herbert Gutman stressed: workers’ voices do matter, and good social history should seek to unearth those voices and present them to the public.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Richard Greenwald \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“All-in-all, this book is fascinating reading, and demonstrates that institutional history is still an important area of study. Well written and researched, this book is highly recommended for every reading list.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Richard P. Mulcahy \u003ci\u003ePennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In spite of its shortcomings, \u003ci\u003eFighting for the Union Label \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces us to a little known chapter of labour history - women garment workers’ struggle to organize in rural Pennsylvania. The authors successfully make the case that Min Matheson deserves a place in the canon of labor heroes. And most importantly, the book makes us rethink the history of deindustrialization by turning back the clock 50 years.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Daniel Kerr \u003ci\u003eLabour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The strength in this book is in its rich use of over 325 oral histories. We learn that globalism has a history, but we learn it from the workers themselves.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Richard Greenwald \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The history of garment workers might be a well-worn topic, yet we still know relatively little about the postwar period and next to nothing outside of a few key cities. This is what makes \u003ci\u003eFighting for the Union Label \u003c\/i\u003eso important. 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