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We Always Had a Union: The New York Hotel Workers' Union, 1912-1953
 
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ISBN13:9780252046445
ISBN10:0252046447
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:336 pages
Size:235x156 mm
Weight:454 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 18 black & white photographs
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We Always Had a Union

The New York Hotel Workers' Union, 1912-1953
 
Edition number: First Edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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Number of Volumes: Hardback
 
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One of New York City’s most powerful unions, the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, AFL-CIO, represents almost 40,000 workers. Shaun Richman’s history places the labor organization within the context of American industrial and craft unionism and reveals how it came to influence politics and economic development in the city and beyond.

From the start, New York’s organized hotel workers experimented with and adapted how they organized and governed members and related to other labor unions. Richman follows union fortunes from early IWW activity through the Communist-led affiliates of the American Federation of Labor in the 1920s and 1930s, the shaping of breakthrough negotiating strategies, and the postwar era. As Richman shows, workers adopted a radicalism and militancy seldom associated with an AFL organization while openly negotiating the Communist Party’s power and influence within the union, until the Party’s eclipse in the 1950s.

An inspiring story of action and perseverance, We Always Had a Union profiles a foundational American labor union and offers lessons for today’s workers and organizers.



?Richman has provided the definitive study of the New York hotel workers? unions. This brilliantly researched study deserves attention from any labor historian or student of the Left. Richman brings long-forgotten unions back to our attention and demonstrates why we must know this history today.?--Erik Loomis, author of A History of America in Ten Strikes
Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

  1. The Unsafest Proposition in the World, 1912–1913
  2. Bolsheviki Methods, 1913–1918
  3. Practical Trade Union Tactics, 1919–1924
  4. Strange as It May Seem, 1925–1929
  5. Political Sentimental Giddiness, 1929–1934
  6. An Industry Has Been Freed, 1934–1938
  7. Status Quo, 1938–1939
  8. Only the Question of Final Alliances Remains, 1939–1941
  9. We Cook, Serve, Work for Victory, 1941–1945
  10. In Normal Order, 1945–1947
  11. The Crack, 1947–1950
  12. Trusteeship, 1950–1953

Afterword

Notes

Sources

Index