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From: Arieh Lebowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [ha-Safran]: Book Talk NYC Nov 15
Tamiment Library Book Talk
The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement
by Robert Parmet [New York University Press, 2005]
WHEN
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
WHERE
Tamiment Library - Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Bobst Library, New York University
70 Washington Square South - 10th Floor
CO-SPONSORS
New York Labor History Association
United Hebrew Trades - New York Jewish Labor Committee
MORE INFORMATION
Michael Nash - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 212-998-2428
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The Master of Seventh Avenue is the definitive biography of David Dubinsky
(18921982), one of the most controversial and influential labor leaders in
20th-century America. A "character" in the truest sense of the word,
Dubinsky was both revered and reviled, but never dull, conformist, or bound
by convention. A Jewish labor radical, Dubinsky fled czarist Poland in 1910
and began his career as a garment worker and union agitator in New York
City. He quickly rose through the ranks of the International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) and became its president in 1932. Dubinsky
led the ILGWU for thirty-four years, where he championed "social unionism,"
which offered workers benefits ranging from health care to housing. Moving
beyond the realm of the ILGWU, Dubinsky also played a leading role in the
American Federation of Labor (AFL), particularly durin! g World War II. A
staunch anti-communist, Dubinsky worked tirelessly to rid the American
labor movement of communists and fellow-travelers.
Robert D. Parmet also chronicles Dubinsky's influential role in local,
national, and international politics. An extraordinary personality whose
life and times present a fascinating lens into the American labor movement,
Dubinsky leaps off the pages of this meticulously researched and vividly
detailed biography.
Robert D. Parmet, professor of history at York College of The City
University of New York, is the author of Labor and Immigration in
Industrial America and co-author of American Nativism, 18301860.
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