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New Yorkers at Work Oral History Collection. Oral histories 1979.

Author:	Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.
Edition/Format:	Archival material : English
Summary:	The collection consists of oral history interviews broadly representative of 20th century New York City working and union experiences. Topics represented include the impact of labor-saving construction techniques on the building trades; immigrant labor; CIO organization; the role of the Left in the labor movement and the impact of the expulsion of Communist-dominated unions in 1949; public employee collective bargaining and the Fiscal Crisis of 1974-75; clerical organizing; new technology and its impact on printers and longshoreman; the quest for economic opportunity by minorities and women. Notable interviewees include: Harry Avrutin, Brenda Berkman, Peter J. Brennan, Father Philip Carey, Charles Cogen, Ed Cleary, Sam Dolgoff, Ralph Fasanella, Abe Flaxer, Harry Fleischman, Philoine Fried, Dolores Huerta, Theodore Woodrow Kheel, Kitty Krupat, Josie McMillian, Joyce Miller, Pauline Newman, Cleveland Robinson, Lillian Roberts, Joe Stack, Leon Sverdlove, Belle Zeller. Labor unions discussed include: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. New York Joint Board, AFSCME. District Council 37 (New York, N.Y.), Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union of America, Coalition of Labor Union Women (U.S.), International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local no. 3 (New York, N.Y.), International Jewelry Workers Union, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, International Longshoremen's Association, National Maritime Union of America, New York Hotel Trades Council Newspaper Guild of New York, Social Service Employees Union. Local 371 (New York, N.Y.), United Automobile, Aircraft, and Vehicle Workers of America. District 65, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, United Farm Workers, United Federation of Teachers, United Office and Professional Workers of America, United Storeworkers (Organization). Local 3 (New York, N.Y.).  Read more...
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Subjects	Avrutin, Harry -- Interviews. Berkman, Brenda -- Interviews. Brennan, Peter J., -- 1918- -- Interviews. View all subjects
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