Oral history interview with Jacob Samuel Potofsky, 1964
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Jacob Samuel Potofsky, 1964
Abstract
Family background and education in Russia; emigration to United States, Chicago; first job in Hart, Schaffner and Marx; 1910 Chicago clothing worker strike; United Garment Workers; Sidney Hillman; arbitration agreements; formation of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; industrial unionism; union banking; experiments with unemployment insurance; cooperative housing; the Depression; the New Deal
Labor unions--Officials and employees; Textile workers--Labor unions; Unemployment insurance; Housing, Cooperative; New Deal, 1933-1939; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; Potofsky, Jacob S. (Jacob Samuel), 1894-1979; AFL-CIO; Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; United Garment Workers
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1964
Physical Description
833 pages
Note (Biographical)
Union official
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010