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“While waiting for the government”: The needle trades unemployment insurance plans, 1919–28

Daniel Nelson Associate Professor of History, University of Akron
Pages 482-499 | Published online: 03 Jul 2008

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  • Gilbert , Bentley . 1966 . The Evolution of National Insurance in Great Britain: Origins of the Welfare State London
  • Gilson , Mary . 1931 . Unemployment Insurance in Great Britain New York
  • Carroll , Molly . 1930 . Unemployment Insurance in Germany Washington
  • Hillman , Sidney . 1928 . Advance , March 30
  • Feldman , Herman . 1925 . The Regularization of Employment New York
  • 1967 . The Struggle for Social Security Cambridge
  • Smelser , David P. 1919 . Unemployment and American Trade Unions 130 – 30 . Baltimore
  • Stewart , Bryce M. 1930 . Unemployment Benefits in the United States 225 – 36 . New York
  • 1931 . “Unemployment Benefit Plans in the United State and Unemployment Insurance in Foreign Countries,” . Monthly Labor Review , DXLIV July
  • 1932 . “Unemployment Benefit Plans,” . XXXV December Ibid.
  • Whitney , Anice . 1934 . “Operation of Unemployment Benefit Plans in the United States up to 1934, Part I,” . XXXVIII June Ibid.
  • Pope , James Eliphalet . 1905 . Tie Clothing Industry in New York Columbia, Missouri
  • 1915 . “Regularity of Employment in the Women's Ready‐to‐Wear Garment Industries,” . BLS Bulletin , CLXXXIII October : 8
  • 1929 . “Wages and Hours of Labor in the Men's Clothing Industry, 1911 to 1928,” . BLS Bulletin , CII December : 2 7 28
  • Governor's Advisory Commission, Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry, New York City . 1924 . Report 144
  • Governor's Advisory Commission, Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry, New York City . 1926 . Final Recommendations , May 20 : 6
  • Governor's Advisory Commission . Final Recommendations , 3
  • Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America . 1934 . Proceedings 10th Biennial Convention . 1934 . pp. 20
  • Governor's Advisory Commission . Report 143
  • Gollomb , Joseph . 1938 . “Sidney Hillman,” . Atlantic Monthly , CLXII July : 48
  • Budish , J. M. and Soule , George . 1920 . The New Unionism in the Clothing Industry 12 New York
  • 1921 . Advance , March 25
  • Matthew , Josephson . 1952 . Sidney Hillman 140 Garden City
  • Leo , Wolman . 1924 . Growth of American Trade Unions 51 New York
  • Wolman , Leo . 1936 . Ebb and Plow in Trade Unionism New York
  • 1919 . Advance , January 23
  • 1919 . Advance , July 23
  • 1919 . New York World , July 27
  • 1920 . Advance , October 8
  • A.C.W.A . 1920 . Proceedings 4th Biennial Convention . May 1920 . pp. 237 General Executive Board Report
  • 1919 . Advance , October 3 October 31, 1919
  • 1920 . Advance , June 18
  • Wolman , Leo . 1923 . The Clothing Workers of Chicago Chicago
  • Wolman . Clothing Workers of Chicago 159
  • 1920 . Advance , September 3
  • A.C.W.A. 1922 . Proceedings 5th Biennial Convention . May 1922 . pp. 130 General Executive Board Report
  • Hillman , Sidney . 1921 . “Views of an American Workman on Unemployment,” . American Labor Legislation Review , XI March : 28
  • Wolman , Leo . 1922 . “A Proposal for an Unemployment Fund in the Men's Clothing Industry,” . In Amalgamated Education Pamphlets Vol. V , 12 21 New York
  • 1927 . Advance , August 26
  • A.C.W.A . Proceedings 5th Convention . pp. 135 GEB Report
  • 1923 . “Memorandum of a Tentative Agreement Concerning Employment Fund between Messrs. Hillman, Wolman, and Howard,” . January 13 A.C.W.A. Papers
  • 1923 . Advance , April 27
  • 1923 . “Editorials,” . Survey, II , November 1 : 164
  • A.C.W.A. 1934 . Proceedings 10th Biennial Convention . 1934 . pp. 44 GEB Report
  • 1924 . Advance , June 27
  • 1924 . Advance , July 4
  • Draper , Theodore . 1960 . American Communism and Soviet ‘Russia 215 – 23 . New York
  • 1926 . Daily Worker , January 29
  • Browder , Earl R. 1924 . “Amalgamated Clothing Workers Resist Reaction,” . Labor Herald , III June : 107
  • Simon , A. 1924 . “Ferment in the Needle Trades,” . Labor Herald , III August : 175
  • Foster , William Z. 1925 . “The Left Wing in the Needle Trades Elections,” . The Workers Monthly , IV February : 150
  • Schneider , David M. 1928 . The Workers (Communist) Party and American Trade Unions 62 Baltimore
  • 1924 . Advance , December 5
  • 1924 . Daily Worker , December 16
  • 1924 . Advance , December 19 February 20, 1925
  • 1929 . Advance , November 15
  • 1929 . The New York Times , November 29
  • A.C.W.A . 1930 . Proceedings 9th Biennial Convention . 1930 . pp. 66 GEB Report
  • 1923 . Rochester [New York] Times Union , June 13
  • A.C.W.A. 1934 . Proceedings 11th Biennial Convention . 1934 . pp. 125 GEB Report
  • Levine , Louis . 1924 . The Women's Garment Workers 280 – 82 . 283 – 86 . New York
  • 1920 . Justice , July 2
  • Commons , John R. 1925 . Can Business Prevent Unemployment? 201 New York
  • Butler , Fred C . 1924 . “Guaranteed Employment in the Cleveland Garment Industry,” . ALLR , XIV June : 137
  • 1922 . The New York Times , September 10
  • Stolber , Benjamin . 1944 . Tailor's Progress 99 Garden City
  • 1921 . Justice , February 4
  • International Ladies Garment Workers Union . 1922 . Report and Proceedings 16th Biennial Convention . 1922 . pp. 97 184
  • 1923 . Fur Worker , February
  • 1923 . Fur Worker , May
  • 1924 . Fur Worker , February May 1924
  • 1924 . Pur Worker , August
  • United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers . 1919 . Report of the Proceedings 12th Biennial Convention . 1919 . pp. 46
  • 1921 . Headgear Worker , September 9 May 13, 1923
  • USHCM . 1923 . Report of the Proceedings 14th Biennial Convention . 1923 . pp. 59 105
  • 1924 . Justice , March 14
  • I.L.G.W.U. 1925 . Report of tie GEB 18th Convention . 1925 . pp. 139 – 40 .
  • 1925 . Fur Worker , July
  • 1928 . “Beneficial Activities of American Trade Unions,” . BLS Bulletin , CDLXV September : 151
  • 1926 . Pur Worker , June
  • 1927 . Justice , February 18 March 25, 1927, April 1, 1927
  • Carsel , Wilfred . 1940 . A History of the Chicago Ladies Garment Workers’ Union 180 – 181 . 186 196 Chicago
  • ILGWU . 1926 . Report of the GEB 19th Convention . 1926 . pp. 184
  • Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers . 1925 . Proceedings 15th Convention . 1925 . pp. 30 The name change occurred in 1924
  • 1924 . Headgear Worker , May 16 August 8, 1924, February 6 1925
  • CHCMW . 1925 . Proceedings 15th Convention . 1925 . pp. 35
  • 1924 . Headgear Worker , March 21
  • 1932 . Mo. Labor R , XXV : 1245 – 46 .
  • 1928 . Advance , June 15

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