All Together Different : Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism / Daniel Katz.
2011
HD6515.C5 K38 2016
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Title
All Together Different : Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism / Daniel Katz.
Author
Katz, Daniel, author.
ISBN
9780814763674
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource : 41 black and white illustrations
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10.18574/nyu/9780814748367.001.0001 doi
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HD6515.C5 K38 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.881870899240747
Summary
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.
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Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History ; ; 1
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I
1. "Harmoniously Functioning Nationalities"
2. The Revolutionary and Gendered Origins of Garment Workers' Education, 1909-1918
3. Political Factionalism and Multicultural Education, 1917-1927
4. Reconstructing a Multicultural Union, 1927-1933
Part II
5. All Together Different
6. Politics and the Precarious Place of Multiculturalism
Part III
7. From Yiddish Socialism to Jewish Liberalism
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I
1. "Harmoniously Functioning Nationalities"
2. The Revolutionary and Gendered Origins of Garment Workers' Education, 1909-1918
3. Political Factionalism and Multicultural Education, 1917-1927
4. Reconstructing a Multicultural Union, 1927-1933
Part II
5. All Together Different
6. Politics and the Precarious Place of Multiculturalism
Part III
7. From Yiddish Socialism to Jewish Liberalism
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author