Not just a history of the rapid growth of the Amalgamated Clothing Worker’s Union in the 1910s, but also a look at the social, political, and economic lives of the largely Jewish women immigrant workers who made up the industry on the East Coast. For those interested in the women workers’ movement, clothing workers unions, industrial unions, workers’ education, labor’s conflicted leadership, and especially US Jewish labor history, this book remains an important resource. Online text as well as the PDF linked below.

The New Unionism in the Clothing Industry by J.M. Budish and George Soule. Harcourt, Brace, and Howe Publishers, New York. 1920.

Contents: Note, I) THE NEW UNIONISM, Success of the Clothing Unions, British New Unionism, Industrial Workers of the World, Hoxie’s Classification of Unions, Tendencies Toward New Unionism in U.S., Characteristics of the Clothing Unions, II) THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY, Magnitude of the Industry, Divisions of the Industry, History of Men’s Clothing Trades, History of Women’s Clothing Trades, Seasonal Character, Fluidity of Labor, Fashions, Power Installation, Size and Number of Establishments, Contractors and Sub-Manufacturers, Difficulty of Controlling Industry, Variations in Efficiency, Difficulty of Mobilizing Labor, Number of Women Employed, The Function of the Unions, III) THE HUMAN ELEMENT, Assumed Radicalism of the Immigrant, Personnel of the Clothing Industry, Situation of East-European Jews, Culture of the Jews, Persecution of Jews in Russia, Anti-Jewish Movement in Rumania and Austria-Hungary, What the Jews Sought in America, Proportion of Socialists Among Jewish Immigrants, Development of Socialism Among Jews in the U.S., Italian Immigration, Influence of Race and Leadership, IV) THE UNIONS BEGINNINGS AND GROWTH, The Unions, Their History to 1900, The United Garment Workers, The United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers of North America, The International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, Backwardness of the U.G.W., The Nashville Conventions, The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, A Needle Trades Federation, The International Fur Workers’ Union, The Journeyman Tailors’ Union, The United Neckwear Makers, The Suspender Makers Union, Present Strength of the Unions, V) DECISIVE VICTORIES, The Workers’ State of Mind, A Typical Tenement, A Contractor’s Shop, Specific Grievances, New York Cloak Strike of 1910, Signing of the Protocol, Chicago Men’s Clothing Strike of 1910, More Recent Achievements, VI) COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS, Community of Interest Between Employer and Employee, Conflict of Interest, Collective Agreement, Operation of Protocol Machinery, Friction Under the Protocol, Causes of Complaint, The Fundamental Conflict, Abrogation of Protocol, Cloakmakers’ Agreement of 1916, Agreements of 1919 in Women’s Industry, Joint Board of Sanitary Control, Hart, Schaffner and Marx Agreements, Impartial Machinery in New York Men’s Industry, Industrial Council in Men’s Industry, Other Agreements, VII) PHILOSOPHY, STRUCTURE, AND STRATEGY, Power of the Needle-Trades Unions, Function of Ideas, Origins of Old Unionism, Origins of Clothing Unions, First Expressions of their Philosophy Leadership, Structure of the Clothing Unions, Strategy of the Clothing Unions, VIII) EDUCATION, Interest in the Unions’ Educational Work, Educational Function of Unions Themselves, Early Labor Education, New Conception of Education, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Activities, United Labor Education Committee, New Unionist’s Attitude Towards Education, IX) LABOR PRESS AND COOPERATIVES, Growing Power of the Press, Bias of the Capitalist Press, Union Journals in English, Early Jewish Workers’ Press, The Forward, Other Journals, Clothing Union Publications, Cooperative Enterprises, A Cooperative Bank, X) TEXTILES, Inter-Relation of Textiles and Clothing, The Textile Industry, The Labor Force in Textiles, The Older Unions, The Lawrence Strike of 1919, The Amalgamated Textile Workers, Competition Between New and Old Unions, Amalgamation with Clothing Workers, XI) THE FUTURE, Speculation About the Future, What Remains to be Achieved, Wages and Productivity, Seasonal Unemployment, Workers’ Control of the Industry, Cooperative Production, Revolutionary General Strike, Socialization by Political and Economic Action, Future Policy of the Workers, Interests of the Public, comparative Dangers from Conservative and Radical Unions, Necessity of Experiment and Change, BIBLIOGRAPHY, APPENDIX, INDEX. 344 PAGES.

PDF of book: https://books.google.com/books/download/The_New_Unionism_in_the_Clothing_Industr.pdf?id=9SguAAAAYAAJ&output=pdf

Online text of book: https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/new-unionism/index.htm