Reminiscences of Jacob Samuel Potofsky : oral history, 1964.

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Reminiscences of Jacob Samuel Potofsky : oral history, 1964.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309722949

Family background and education in Russia; emigration to United States, Chicago; first job in Hart, Schaffner and Marx; 1910 Chicago clothing worker strike; United Garment Workers; Sidney Hillman; arbitration agreements; formation of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; industrial unionism; union banking; experiments with unemployment insurance; cooperative housing; the Depression; the New Deal.

Transcript: 833 leaves.Tape: 3 reels.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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