|
|
1 |
Bisno, Abraham with a Foreword By Joel Seidman Abraham Bisno Union Pioneer An Autobiographical Account of Bisno's Early Life and the Beginnings of Unionism in the Women's Garment Industry
The University of Wisconsin Press 1967 Hard Cover Near-Fine No Jacket
1967 Copyright - No tears - No writing - Tight spine - 244 pages - Frontispiece photo of Bisno - 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 - Abraham Bisno, Union Pioneer - An autobiographical account of Bisno's early life and the beginnings of unionism in the women's garment industry. Bisno, in the early 1900s, one of the best-known labor leaders among the Jewish garment workers in Chicago and New York. Born in Russia in 1866, the son and grandson of tailors, he was apprenticed to the trade as a boy, and when his family migrated to the United States in 1881, he went to work at once; for a short time in Atlanta, where the family first lived, then in Chattanooga, and finally in Chicago, where the family settled in 1882. It was there that his interest in improving conditions for workers developed, and for more than thirt years he took a leading part in union activity in the garment industry, serving in 1890 as the first president of the Chicago Cloak Maker's Union, one of the forerunners of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and later as chief clerk of the Joint Board of the ILGWU in New York City. Although after 1917 he devoted most of his time to the real estate business, he never lost interest in union affairs.
Price:
10.00 USD
|
