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"For all white-collar workers": The possibilities of radicalism in New York City's department store unions, 1934--1953.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"For all white-collar workers": The possibilities of radicalism in New York City's department store unions, 1934--1953./
Author:	Opler, Daniel Joseph.
Description:	318 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Daniel Walkowitz.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-09A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3105902
ISBN:	9780496534685

"For all white-collar workers": The possibilities of radicalism in New York City's department store unions, 1934--1953.
Opler, Daniel Joseph.

"For all white-collar workers": The possibilities of radicalism in New York City's department store unions, 1934--1953. - 318 p.

Adviser: Daniel Walkowitz.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2003.

This dissertation explores the initial success and eventual defeat of labor unions in American department stores. In examining the communist-led department store unions in New York City, this study argues that the most important role of communists in American labor history lay in their willingness to push for a more inclusive vision of unionism, a vision that included white-collar women workers in department stores. In the 1930s, communists' success in organizing these workers was also due to their links to other social movements and their support for workers' militancy. These unions were so successful that they led non-communist CIO leaders to create a national retail workers' union, and store managers signed contracts in many of New York City's largest department stores in the late 1930s.

ISBN: 9780496534685Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

"For all white-collar workers": The possibilities of radicalism in New York City's department store unions, 1934--1953.
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520 $a This dissertation explores the initial success and eventual defeat of labor unions in American department stores. In examining the communist-led department store unions in New York City, this study argues that the most important role of communists in American labor history lay in their willingness to push for a more inclusive vision of unionism, a vision that included white-collar women workers in department stores. In the 1930s, communists' success in organizing these workers was also due to their links to other social movements and their support for workers' militancy. These unions were so successful that they led non-communist CIO leaders to create a national retail workers' union, and store managers signed contracts in many of New York City's largest department stores in the late 1930s.
520 $a The rise of the Cold War brought an end to the possibility of powerful retail workers' unions in America. In response to suburbanization, managers opened branch stores in suburban shopping malls and to restructure the main city stores, firing thousands of workers and undercutting the union in the process. Additionally, the formation of a congressional committee to investigate communism within the department store unions split the communist leaders of the department store unions from their non-communist allies in the CIO, all but destroying the CIO's retail workers' union in the process. Communist union leaders' reactions to these Cold War developments prevented the unions from expanding any further. As managers began to close some of the city stores, workers demanded that their union leaders concentrate on protecting workers from managers' attacks rather than supporting communist policies. Union leaders did as workers demanded, breaking with the Communist Party. Union leaders' new anti-communism, however, prevented them from challenging managerial restructuring when managers had the support of the state. When workers struck to protest managerial restructuring in 1953, the courts issued an anti-picketing injunction that the unions could not defy without again raising the question of their connection to Communism. The strike ended in defeat; managerial restructuring continued; and the possibilities for powerful retail workers' unions in America all but disappeared.
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