Harmoniously functioning nationalities: Yiddish socialism in Russia and the United States, 1892-1918 -- The revolutionary and gendered origins of garment workers' education, 1909-1918 -- Political factionalism and multicultural education, 1917-1927 -- Reconstructing a multicultural union, 1927-1933 -- All together different: social unionism and the multicultural front, 1933-1937 -- Politics and the precarious place of multiculturalism -- From Yiddish socialism to Jewish liberalism: the politics and social vision of pins and needles, 1937-1941 -- Cosmopolitan unionism and mutual culturalism in the World War II era
Summary
In the early 1930's, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) organized large numbers of Black and Hispanic workers through a broadly conceived program of education, culture, and community involvement. The ILGWU admitted these new members, the overwhelming majority of whom were women, into racially integrated local unions and created structures to celebrate ethnic differences. All Together Different revolves around this phenomenon of interracial union building and worker education during the Great Depression. Investigating why immigrant Jewish unionists in the ILGWU appealed to
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