LEADER 05441nam 22006495 450 001 9910984618003321 005 20230126223524.0 010 $a9780271086538 010 $a027108653X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271086538 035 $a(CKB)5470000000571065 035 $a(DE-B1597)584103 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271086538 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6895021 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6895021 035 $a(OCoLC)1309039056 035 $a(OCoLC)1253313650 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_103451 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31784110 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31784110 035 $a(OCoLC)1472986386 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000000571065 100 $a20210526h20212020 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aSewn in Coal Country $eAn Oral History of the Ladies? Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1945?1995 /$fed. by Robert P. Wolensky 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aUniversity Park, PA : $cPenn State University Press, $d[2021] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (416 p.) $c84 illustrations/1 map 311 08$a9780271084909 311 08$a0271084901 311 08$a9780271086514 311 08$a0271086513 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tList of Abbreviations --$tIntroduction: Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Garment Industry --$t1. Dorothy "Dot" Ney: Garment Worker, Union Organizer, and Business Agent --$t2. William "Bill" Cherkes: Garment Shop Owner and Garment Association President --$t3. Minnie "Min" Matheson: Labor Leader, Social Activist, and ILGWU District Director --$t4. Angelo "Rusty" "Bill" DePasquale: Mineworker and ILGWU Organizer and "Enforcer --$t5. Anthony "Tony" D'Angelo: Garment Presser and Barber --$t6. Alice Reca: Garment Worker, Union Organizer, and Business Agent --$t7. John "Johnny" Justin: Garment Worker, Labor Organizer, and ILGWU District Director --$t8. Clementine "Clem" Lyons: Garment Worker, Business Agent, and Chorus Performer and Director --$t9. Helen Weiss: Garment Worker, Business Agent, and Chorus Performer --$t10. George and Lucy Zorgo: Union Printers and Labor Advocates --$t11. Philomena "Minnie" Caputo: Garment Worker, Union Activist, Chairlady, and Floorlady --$t12. Dr. Albert Schiowitz: Physician and Director of the Wyoming Valley ILGWU Health Center --$t13. Leo Gutstein: Family Garment Shop Owner and Garment Association President --$t14. Pearl Novak: Garment Worker, Union Organizer, and Social Activist --$t15. Betty Greenberg: Mother, Spouse, Activist, and the Mathesons' Daughter --$t16. Labor, Working-Class, Gender, and Oral History --$tAppendix 1: The Wyoming Valley Oral Histories --$tAppendix 2: Glossary of Selected Terms --$tAppendix 3: Biographical Sketches --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aBy the mid-1930s, Pennsylvania's anthracite coal industry was facing a steady decline. Mining areas such as the Wyoming Valley around the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Pittston were full of willing workers (including women) who proved irresistibly attractive to New York City's "runaway shops"--Ladies' apparel factories seeking lower labor and other costs. The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) soon followed, and the Valley became a thriving hub of clothing production and union activity. This volume tells the story of the area's apparel industry through the voices of men and women who lived it. Drawing from an archive of over sixty audio-recorded interviews within the Northeastern Pennsylvania Oral and Life History Collection, Sewn in Coal Country showcases sixteen stories told by workers, shop owners, union leaders, and others. The interview subjects recount the ILGWU-led movement to organize the shops, the conflicts between the district union and the national office in New York, the solidarity unionism approach of leader Min Matheson, the role of organized crime within the business, and the failed efforts to save the industry in the 1980s and 1990s. Robert P. Wolensky places the narratives in the larger context of American clothing manufacturing during the period and highlights their broader implications for the study of labor, gender, the working class, and oral history. Highly readable and thoroughly enlightening, this significant contribution to the study of labor history and women's history will appeal to anyone interested in the relationships among workers, unions, management, and community; the effects of economic change on an area and its residents; the role of organized crime within the industry; and Pennsylvania history--especially the social history of industrialization and deindustrialization during the twentieth century 606 $aHISTORY / Social History$2bisacsh 610 $aLabor history. 610 $aPennsylvania. 610 $agender. 610 $aindustrial history. 610 $aoral history. 610 $aorganized crime. 610 $awomen?s history. 610 $aworking class history. 615 7$aHISTORY / Social History. 676 $a331.8818709227482 702 $aWolensky$b Robert P., $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910984618003321 996 $aSewn in Coal Country$94332738 997 $aUNINA LEADER 01173nam 2200253la 450 001 9910482826203321 005 20221102152942.0 035 $a(UK-CbPIL)2090305454 035 $a(CKB)5500000000094912 035 $a(EXLCZ)995500000000094912 100 $a20221102d1596 uy | 101 0 $alat 135 $aurcn||||a|bb| 200 10$aTychonis Brahe Dani Epistolarvm astronomicarvm libri, quorum primvs hic illvstriss: et lavdatiss: principis Gvlielmi Hassiae landtgravii ac ipsius Mathematici literas, vnaq; Responsa ad singulas complectitur 210 $aUranienborg $cEx officina? typographica? authoris$d1596 215 $aOnline resource ([40], 309, [2] s., ill., portr.) 300 $aReproduction of original in Det Kongelige Bibliotek / The Royal Library (Copenhagen). 700 $aBrahe$b Tycho$f1546-1601.$045241 801 0$bUk-CbPIL 801 1$bUk-CbPIL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910482826203321 996 $aTychonis Brahe Dani Epistolarvm astronomicarvm libri, quorum primvs hic illvstriss: et lavdatiss: principis Gvlielmi Hassiae landtgravii ac ipsius Mathematici literas, vnaq; Responsa ad singulas complectitur$91973816 997 $aUNINA