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Subject Guide: Labor History

Archival and library highlights found at the Center relating to labor history and the individuals and organizations that fought for equal rights in the workplace.

Constitution and Receipt Book for the Jewish Garment Workers Union, 1913 / From the collections of Yeshiva University Museum

Library Material

A Common Thread : A History of Toronto's Garment Industry / Text Writer and Researcher: Rachel Taylor ; Catalogue Editor and Exhibition Curator: Dorion Liebgott. Toronto]: Beth Tzedec Reuben & Helene Dennis Museum, 2003. Print.

A Perfect Fit : The Garment Industry and American Jewry (1860-1960) / Edited by Gabriel Goldstein and Elizabeth Greenberg ; Foreword by Sylvia A. Herskowitz. Lubbock, Tex.: Texas Tech UP, 2012. Print. Costume Society of America Ser.

Workers and Revolutionaries : The Jewish Labor Movement / [exhibition Curator and Catalogue Editor, Tamar Manor-Friedman ; Translations, Haya Galai, Richard Flantz]. Tel Aviv: Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1994.