Author: Abraham Meyer Rogoff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Formative Years of the Jewish Labor Movement in the United States (1890-1900)
Author: Abraham Meyer Rogoff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Jewish Unions in America
Author: Bernard Weinstein
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783743565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time. It describes how Weinstein led countless strikes, held the unions together in the face of retaliation from the bosses, investigated sweatshops and factories with the aid of reformers, and faced down schisms by various factions, including Anarchists and Communists. He co-founded the United Hebrew Trades and wrote speeches, articles and books advancing the cause of the labor movement. From the pages of this book emerges a vivid picture of workers’ organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century and a capitalist system that bred exploitation, poverty, and inequality. Although workers’ rights have made great progress in the decades since, Weinstein’s descriptions of workers with jobs pitted against those without, and American workers against workers abroad, still carry echoes today. The Jewish Unions in America is a testament to the struggles of working people a hundred years ago. But it is also a reminder that workers must still battle to live decent lives in the free market. For the first time, Maurice Wolfthal’s readable translation makes Weinstein’s Yiddish text available to English readers. It is essential reading for students and scholars of labor history, Jewish history, and the history of American immigration.
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783743565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time. It describes how Weinstein led countless strikes, held the unions together in the face of retaliation from the bosses, investigated sweatshops and factories with the aid of reformers, and faced down schisms by various factions, including Anarchists and Communists. He co-founded the United Hebrew Trades and wrote speeches, articles and books advancing the cause of the labor movement. From the pages of this book emerges a vivid picture of workers’ organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century and a capitalist system that bred exploitation, poverty, and inequality. Although workers’ rights have made great progress in the decades since, Weinstein’s descriptions of workers with jobs pitted against those without, and American workers against workers abroad, still carry echoes today. The Jewish Unions in America is a testament to the struggles of working people a hundred years ago. But it is also a reminder that workers must still battle to live decent lives in the free market. For the first time, Maurice Wolfthal’s readable translation makes Weinstein’s Yiddish text available to English readers. It is essential reading for students and scholars of labor history, Jewish history, and the history of American immigration.
Jews, Labour and the Left, 1918–48
Author: Christine Collette
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351749684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This title was first published in 2000. With the advent of the Second World War, fascism became inextricably associated with anti-Semitism. It is hardly surprising, therefore, to find that a significant number of Jewish people were politically inclined towards the left and were actively involved in socialist movements. The essays in this volume seek to arrive at an understanding of Jewish involvement in Labour movements outside Israel from the end of the First World War to the final stages of World War Two. This was a period which saw the creation of several international socialist institutions. Gail Malmgreen looks at the American Jewish Labor Committee and examines the interaction between trades unions and the Jewish community. Deborah Osmond, Christine Collette and Jason Heppell discuss the contributions made by Jews living in Britain to Labour politics, including the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Labour and Socialist International. The reactions and stances of the British Labour party in relation to Zionism and the Holocaust are the subjects of essays by Isabelle Tombs and Paul Kelemen. David De Vries's study of the position of Jewish white-collar workers in British-ruled Palestine provides another perspective on the complex web of relationships between British and Jewish identity, class, labour and politics. An invaluable bibliography by Arieh Lebowitz of sources for the study of Jewish interaction with the American and British Labour movements completes this important survey.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351749684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This title was first published in 2000. With the advent of the Second World War, fascism became inextricably associated with anti-Semitism. It is hardly surprising, therefore, to find that a significant number of Jewish people were politically inclined towards the left and were actively involved in socialist movements. The essays in this volume seek to arrive at an understanding of Jewish involvement in Labour movements outside Israel from the end of the First World War to the final stages of World War Two. This was a period which saw the creation of several international socialist institutions. Gail Malmgreen looks at the American Jewish Labor Committee and examines the interaction between trades unions and the Jewish community. Deborah Osmond, Christine Collette and Jason Heppell discuss the contributions made by Jews living in Britain to Labour politics, including the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Labour and Socialist International. The reactions and stances of the British Labour party in relation to Zionism and the Holocaust are the subjects of essays by Isabelle Tombs and Paul Kelemen. David De Vries's study of the position of Jewish white-collar workers in British-ruled Palestine provides another perspective on the complex web of relationships between British and Jewish identity, class, labour and politics. An invaluable bibliography by Arieh Lebowitz of sources for the study of Jewish interaction with the American and British Labour movements completes this important survey.
Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920
Author: Eli Lederhendler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052151360X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Down and out in Eastern Europe -- Being an immigrant: ideal, ordeal, and opportunities -- Becoming an (ethnic) American: from class to ideology.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052151360X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Down and out in Eastern Europe -- Being an immigrant: ideal, ordeal, and opportunities -- Becoming an (ethnic) American: from class to ideology.
United States Jewry, 1776-1985
Author: Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814344682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Marcus follows the movement of these "GermanJews into all regions west of the Hudson River.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814344682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Marcus follows the movement of these "GermanJews into all regions west of the Hudson River.
In the Almost Promised Land
Author: Hasia R. Diner
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801850653
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Seeking the reasons behind Jewish altruism toward African Americans, Hasis Finer shows how-in the wake of the Leo Frank trial and lynching in Atlanta-Jews came to see that their relative prosperity wa sno protection against the same social forces that threatened blacks. Jewish leaders and organizations genuinely believed in the cause of black civil rights, Diner suggests, but they also used that cause as a way of advancing their own interests-launching a vicarious attack on the nation that they felt had not lived up to its own ideals of freedom and equality.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801850653
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Seeking the reasons behind Jewish altruism toward African Americans, Hasis Finer shows how-in the wake of the Leo Frank trial and lynching in Atlanta-Jews came to see that their relative prosperity wa sno protection against the same social forces that threatened blacks. Jewish leaders and organizations genuinely believed in the cause of black civil rights, Diner suggests, but they also used that cause as a way of advancing their own interests-launching a vicarious attack on the nation that they felt had not lived up to its own ideals of freedom and equality.
The Gilded Age
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Daniel DeLeon, the Odyssey of an American Marxist
Author: L. Glen Seretan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674191211
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674191211
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Early Jewish Labor Movement in the United States
Author: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A Time for Gathering
Author: Hasia R. Diner
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801851216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Diner describes this "second wave" of Jewish migration and challenges many long-held assumptions--particularly the belief that the immigrants' Judaism erodes in the middle class comfort of Victorian America.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801851216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Diner describes this "second wave" of Jewish migration and challenges many long-held assumptions--particularly the belief that the immigrants' Judaism erodes in the middle class comfort of Victorian America.