Jewish Labor and Political Archives Project

FAIN: PW-290509-23

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York, NY 10011-6301)
Stefanie Halpern (Project Director: July 2022 to present)

The arrangement and description of 122 linear feet of archival materials from four collections documenting Jewish immigrant involvement in the U.S. labor movement, as well as the digitization of 293,000 pages from those collections.

This project will process and digitize four collections totaling 122 linear feet from YIVO's Jewish Labor and Political Archives. These collections which include the records of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, United Hebrew Trades, and the Jewish Labor Committee represent four of the largest and most influential Labor Unions in the United States in the 20th Century. Founded by and with a mainly Jewish immigrant base, these unions advanced workers rights, pay, and conditions across a variety of industries for American workers of all ethnic backgrounds.