For the Love of Labor
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Cleveland
cloakmakers
coal
communism
Cooper Union
corset maker
daughter
Dorthea Dix
education
Eleanor Roosevelt
Elisabeth Burger
Ellis Island
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Eugene Debs
factories
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feminists
Filene
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Frieda Miller
garment
garment industry
garment workers
gender inequality
general strike
healthcare
homosexuality
ILGW
ILGWU
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Influenza
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Jewish
Jewish Enlightenment
John Dyche
Joint Board of Sanitary Control
Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo Corset Company
kimono workers
Knickerbocker Crisis
Kovno
labor
labor strikes
Ladies Garment Worker
lesbians
Life and Labor
Lithuania
Lower East Side
Margaret Dreier
miners
New York City
Newman
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Pauline Newman
Philadelphia
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picket lines
poverty
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Red Scare
Red Special
rent strike
Rose Schneiderman
Sacco and Vanzetti
Samuel Gompers
school
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sewing
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The Forward
Theodore Roosevelt
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- ISBN 9780252089206
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Mar 2026
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From her start as one of the youngest activists in US history, Pauline Newman helped shape the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) into a dominant force in industrial America. Cathryn J. Prince tells the story of a self-educated Jewish immigrant who dedicated herself to a legion of causes and lifelong battles against sexism and classism.
Prince follows Newman's life from a youth split between Lithuania and New York City sweatshops to her work as an advisor to New Deal–era labor secretary Frances Perkins. Newman's long hours at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory informed her entrée into labor activism. In the following years, she tirelessly advocated for workers, ran for New York Secretary of State as a socialist, and became the first woman to serve as the ILGWU general organizer. Her interest in the health of workers led to service on the Joint Board of Sanitary Control and a decades-long term as education director of the ILGWU health center. Membership in Eleanor Roosevelt's circle opened doors to government positions and advisory roles that continued into the postwar era. Prince also weaves in the details of Newman's fifty-year relationship with a woman, her struggles with her sexual identity, and her final years.
Engaging and panoramic, For the Love of Labor is the first major biography of an important figure in labor and women's history.
Prince follows Newman's life from a youth split between Lithuania and New York City sweatshops to her work as an advisor to New Deal–era labor secretary Frances Perkins. Newman's long hours at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory informed her entrée into labor activism. In the following years, she tirelessly advocated for workers, ran for New York Secretary of State as a socialist, and became the first woman to serve as the ILGWU general organizer. Her interest in the health of workers led to service on the Joint Board of Sanitary Control and a decades-long term as education director of the ILGWU health center. Membership in Eleanor Roosevelt's circle opened doors to government positions and advisory roles that continued into the postwar era. Prince also weaves in the details of Newman's fifty-year relationship with a woman, her struggles with her sexual identity, and her final years.
Engaging and panoramic, For the Love of Labor is the first major biography of an important figure in labor and women's history.
Cathryn J. Prince is an adjunct professor of journalism at Fordham University. Her books include Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman and American Daredevil: The Extraordinary Life of Richard Halliburton, the World's First Celebrity Travel Writer.
