essay
Unionism and the Italian American worker: the politics of anti-communism in the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in New York City, 1900-1925
Italian Americans through the generations • Staten Island, New York • Published In 1986 • Pages: 77-91
By: Zappia, Charles A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper represents a preliminary investigation '…into the emerging political activism of the Italian members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in New York City prior to the economic collapse of 1929' (p. 77). Particular attention is given to the role of Italians in the ILGWU'S so called 'civil war', a period of intense struggle within the union during the 1920s. Zappia describes the organization of Italian workers into two important language locals and their participation in the intra-union conflict between the communist and 'right wing' socialists culminating in the Special Convention of 1925. This Special Convention served as the battleground for the power struggle within the ILGWU.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor organization
- Political movements
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Writer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1925
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Charles A. Zappia
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans