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One of New York City's most powerful unions, the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, AFL-CIO, represents almost 40,000 workers. Shaun Richman's history places the labor organization within the context of American industrial and craft unionism and reveals how it came to influence politics and economic development in the city and beyond. From the start, New York's organized hotel workers experimented with and adapted how they organized and governed members and related to other labor unions. Richman follows union fortunes from early IWW activity through the Communist-led affiliates of the American Federation of Labor in the 1920s and 1930s, the shaping of breakthrough negotiating strategies, and the postwar era. As Richman shows, workers adopted a radicalism and militancy seldom associated with an AFL organization while openly negotiating the Communist Party's power and influence within the union, until the Party's eclipse in the 1950s.
An inspiring story of action and perseverance, We Always Had a Union profiles a foundational American labor union and offers lessons for today's workers and organizers.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Unsafest Proposition in the World, 1912-1913
Bolsheviki Methods, 1913-1918
Practical Trade Union Tactics, 1919-1924
Strange as It May Seem, 1925-1929
Political Sentimental Giddiness, 1929-1934
An Industry Has Been Freed, 1934-1938
Status Quo, 1938-1939
Only the Question of Final Alliances Remains, 1939-1941
We Cook, Serve, Work for Victory, 1941-1945
In Normal Order, 1945-1947
The Crack, 1947-1950
Trusteeship, 1950-1953
Afterword
Notes
Sources
Index
