Fighting for the Union Label: The Women's Garment Industry and the ILGWU in Pennsylvania

by Nicole H. Wolensky, Kenneth C. Wolensky, Robert P. Wolensky

It is no coincidence that the garment industry gained a foothold in Pennsylvania's hard-coal region as mines were closing or reducing operations. "Runaway" factories, especially ones from Manhattan, set up shop in mining towns where labor was plentiful and unions scarce. By the 1930s, garment factories employed thousands of wives and daughters of unemployed or underemployed coal miners in the Wyoming Valley. Organizing workers would prove difficult...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271021683
• ISBN13: 9780271021683
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.8"