Marc R. Levinson papers, 1975-1979.

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Marc R. Levinson papers, 1975-1979.

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The collection consists of papers of Marc R. Levinson from 1975-1979. The AFSCME Local 1644/City of Atlanta series includes correspondence, news clippings, news releases, and printed materials relating to a strike by Local 1644 (Atlanta, Ga.) of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) against the City of Atlanta in 1977. The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union of America/J.P. Stevens Company series contains legal documents, news releases, and printed materials pertaining to the union's 1976-1978 recognition campaign against the J.P. Stevens Company. The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union/Cagle series contains materials relating to the union's 1976 efforts to organize Cagle, a chicken processing plant in Camilla, Georgia. The collection also includes two audio cassette tapes of interviews Levinson made with Jerry Wurf, AFSCME president and Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers. The interviews discuss Atlanta labor relations, public employee unionism, and union political coalitions.

.25 linear ft.

Georgia State University

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Georgia State University

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Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union

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The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the most significant union representing workers in the men's clothing industry, was founded in New York City in 1914 as a breakaway movement from the United Garment Workers. Radical and immigrant workers in the tailors’ and cutters’ locals were the core of the seceding group, which advocated industrial unionism and economic strikes in opposition to the UGW’s craft organization, which they saw as conservative and timid. Their diverging vie...

Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union

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Cagle (Firm : Camilla, Ga.)

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Levinson, Marc R.

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Marc R. Levinson, journalist and news editor, of Atlanta, Georgia. From the description of Marc R. Levinson papers, 1975-1979. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38478191 ...

Shanker, Albert

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Wurf, Jerry, 1919-

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Labor leader, of New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C.; d. 1981. From the description of Papers, 1936-1982. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28418792 ...

AFSCME. Local 1644 (Atlanta, Ga.)

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The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) was chartered by the AFL in 1936 and merged with the Government and Civic Employees Organizing Committee in 1956. From the description of Local 3 (Atlanta, Ga.) records, 1951-1974. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38477555 ...

J.P. Stephens & Co.

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