Object Details
- Description
- In the early 1900s, union organizers overcame the seemingly impossible task of uniting employees in factories and small scattered shops. Surmounting ethnic divisions and hostile owners, workers built lasting labor unions within the major divisions of the garment industry. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union organized women’s and children’s apparel workers; the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America focused on men’s clothing employees; and the United Garment Workers of America centered primarily on makers of work clothing.
- With President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation granting unions legal protection to organize, membership in needle trade unions rose to more than 400,000 out of a garment industry work force of more than 600,000 in 1934.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1916
- associated date
- May 3, 1916
- Credit Line
- International Ladies Garment Workers Union
- Measurements
- overall: 17 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in; 44.45 cm x 29.21 cm
- Object Name
- Poster
