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- Title
UNMAKING 'HEGEMONIC JEWISHNESS': ANTI-COMMUNISM, GENDER POLITICS, AND COMMUNICATION IN THE ILGWU, 1924-1934.
- Authors
Dolber, Brian
- Abstract
The International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) was at the forefront of shaping Jewish working-class culture in the early twentieth century. By the 1920s, however, the structural shifts within the larger political economy were challenging the nature of the Jewish working-class community as a racialized counterpublic. While the male leadership of the ILGWU embraced these changes and advocated for a centralized, expert-led model of communication within the union, Jewish women took a more progressive approach and fought for a model of labor education that facilitated the maintenance of a democratic, ethnic counterpublic in the face of mass culture. The ultimate triumph of the male leadership within the union culminated in the commercialization of its largest effort in mass education-radio station WEVD. It also signaled the transformation of a local, ethnic working-class culture into part of White, consumer society.
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL Ladies' Garment Workers' Union; CLOTHING workers; JEWISH women; HEGEMONY; ORGANIZATIONAL communication; WORKING class
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2008, Vol 15, Issue 1/2, p188
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article