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The master of Seventh Avenue : David Dubinsky and the American labor movement
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ISBN: 0814770363 0814767117 0814768679 1429414731 0814768083 9781429414739 9780814767115 9780814768679 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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The Master of Seventh Avenue is the definitive biography of David Dubinsky (1892-1982), one of the most controversial and influential labor leaders in 20th-century America. A "character" in the truest sense of the word, Dubinsky was both revered and reviled, but never dull, conformist, or bound by convention. A Jewish labor radical, Dubinsky fled czarist Poland in 1910 and began his career as a garment worker and union agitator in New York City. He quickly rose through the ranks of the International Ladies' Garment Workers'Union (ILGWU) and became its president in 1932. Dubinsky led the ILGWU

Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. : labor's champion
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ISBN: 1315703793 1317468910 0765610442 9781317468912 9781315703794 9781317468905 1317468902 9781317468929 1317468929 9780765610447 9780765610447 Year: 2015 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Harry Van Arsdale (1905-1986) was a towering figure in the New York labor scene. After being initiated into the Local 3 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1925 and becoming its business manager in 1933, Van Arsdale turned the then corrupt and disorganized union into a force to be reckoned with. He became president of the New York City Central Labor Council in 1957, which put him in a position to become a greater influence for labor relations locally and nationally. As business manager and president of these organizations, Van Arsdale advocated and won shorter work days, in orde.

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