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All Together Different: Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism
Contributor(s): Katz, Daniel (Author)
ISBN: 0814748368     ISBN-13: 9780814748367
Publisher: New York University Press
OUR PRICE:   $88.11  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Jewish - General
- History | United States - 20th Century
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
Dewey: 331.881
LCCN: 2011028187
Series: Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.41" W x 9.12" (1.41 lbs) 312 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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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 International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) appealed to an international force of coworkers, Katz traces their ideology of a working-class based cultural pluralism, which Daniel Katz newly terms "mutual culturalism," back to the revolutionary experiences of Russian Jewish women. These militant women and their male allies constructed an ethnic identity derived from Yiddish socialist tenets based on the principle of autonomous national cultures in the late nineteenth century Russian Empire. Built on original scholarship and bolstered by exhaustive research, All Together Different offers a fresh perspective on the nature of ethnic identity and working-class consciousness and contributes to current debates about the origins of multiculturalism.


Contributor Bio(s): Katz, Daniel: - Daniel Katz is Professor of History and Dean of Labor Studies at the National Labor College. A former union organizer, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice in New York City.