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We Always Had a Union

Shaun Richman
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1930s
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Amalgamated Food Workers
American Federation of Labor
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cold war
communism
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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Food Workers Industrial Union
Hotel Association
hotels
industrial unionism
Industrial Workers of the World
IWW
Loreism
National Recovery Administration
National War Labor Board
neutrality
New Deal
New York Hotel Trades Council
organizing
post-Communist
radical unions
Red Scare
Rose Pastor Stokes
sabotage
Section 7a
socialism
third period
Thomas Dewey
Trade Union Education League
Trade Union Unity League
TUEL
UNITE HERE
William Z. Foster
World War II
WWII

Product details

  • ISBN 9780252088537
  • Weight: 567g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Apr 2025
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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One of New York City’s most powerful unions, the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, AFL-CIO, represents almost 40,000 workers. Shaun Richman’s history places the labor organization within the context of American industrial and craft unionism and reveals how it came to influence politics and economic development in the city and beyond.

From the start, New York’s organized hotel workers experimented with and adapted how they organized and governed members and related to other labor unions. Richman follows union fortunes from early IWW activity through the Communist-led affiliates of the American Federation of Labor in the 1920s and 1930s, the shaping of breakthrough negotiating strategies, and the postwar era. As Richman shows, workers adopted a radicalism and militancy seldom associated with an AFL organization while openly negotiating the Communist Party’s power and influence within the union, until the Party’s eclipse in the 1950s.

An inspiring story of action and perseverance, We Always Had a Union profiles a foundational American labor union and offers lessons for today’s workers and organizers.

About Shaun Richman
Shaun Richman teaches labor history at SUNY Empire State University. He is the author of Tell the Bosses We’re Coming: A New Action Plan for Workers in the Twenty-First Century.

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