We Always Had a Union ? The New York Hotel Workers` Union, 1912?1953
The New York Hotel Workers' Union, 1912-1953
Series: Working Class in American History;
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Product details:
- Edition number First Edition
- Publisher MO ? University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 28 April 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780252046445
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 235x156x15 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 black & white photographs 700
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Long description:
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 More
