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By Robert D. Parmet

ISBN-10: 0814767117

ISBN-13: 9780814767115

ISBN-10: 0814770363

ISBN-13: 9780814770368

The grasp of 7th Avenue is the definitive biography of David Dubinsky (1892—1982), essentially the most debatable and influential exertions leaders in 20th-century the United States. A “character” within the truest experience of the observe, Dubinsky was once either respected and reviled, yet by no means boring, conformist, or certain through conference. A Jewish hard work radical, Dubinsky fled czarist Poland in 1910 and started his occupation as a garment employee and union agitator in big apple urban. He quick rose during the ranks of the foreign girls’ Garment Workers’Union (ILGWU) and have become its president in 1932. Dubinsky led the ILGWU for thirty-four years, the place he championed “social unionism,” which provided employees advantages starting from overall healthiness care to housing. relocating past the area of the ILGWU, Dubinsky additionally performed a number one function within the American Federation of work (AFL), really in the course of international warfare II. A staunch anti-communist, Dubinsky labored tirelessly to rid the yank hard work move of communists and fellow-travelers.

Robert D. Parmet additionally chronicles Dubinsky’s influential position in neighborhood, nationwide, and foreign politics. a unprecedented character whose lifestyles and instances current a desirable lens into the yankee exertions move, Dubinsky leaps off the pages of this meticulously researched and vividly special biography.

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