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We Always Had a Union: The New York Hotel Workers' Union, 1912-1953

We Always Had a Union: The New York Hotel Workers' Union, 1912-1953

Richman, Shaun

Hardcover

Series: Working Class in American History

Business GeneralRegional: Middle AtlanticSocial Movements

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ISBN10: 0252046447
ISBN13: 9780252046445
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Apr 8 2025
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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.

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