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A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.

Publication: American Jewish History
Publication Date: 01-MAR-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. By Karen Pastorello. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xvii + 273 PP.

Karen Pastorello's new book is both a throwback and a welcome innovation. It is a throwback in the sense that it offers a biography of a labor leader through a lens trained rather narrowly on the public dimensions of a life. But it is a welcome innovation in the sense that it restores Bessie Abramowitz Hillman to a photographic panorama that has far too long focused on male leaders to the exclusion of women, the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) to the exclusion of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACW), and New York to the exclusion...

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