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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
67020752 |
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DLC |
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DLC |
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DLC |
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| Classification number |
HD 6515.C6 |
| Item number |
B5 1967 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
331.881/1/6870924 |
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B |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Bisno, Abraham, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1866-1929. |
| Relator term |
author |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2208 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Abraham Bisno, union pioneer : |
| Remainder of title |
an autobiographical account of Bisno's early life and the beginnings of unionism in the women's garment industry / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
with a foreword by Joel Seidman. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Madison, |
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Milwaukee, |
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London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
The University of Wisconsin Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1967. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
244 pages : |
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illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Abraham Bisno (1866-1929) was, at the beginning of this century, one of the best-known labor leaders in the women's garment industry of Chicago. Having fled from the poverty and pogroms of Czarist Russia, the Bisno family settled in Chicago, where in 1882 Bisno began his career amidst a jungle of low wages, oppressively long hours, unsanitary conditions, and ruthless competition. He soon developed a keen and lasting interest in improving conditions for workers and took an active part in the struggle to establish a union that would be effective in meeting their needs. He served in 1890 as the first president of the Chicago Cloak Makers' Union, one of the forerunners of the International Ladies' Garment Worker's Union. His successful experience as a union leader in Chicago and his reputation as an honest and aggressive unionist led, in 1912, to his appointment as chief clerk of the Joint Board of the ILGWU in New York. Central to Bisno's thinking was the belief that the worker was entitled to economic security, decent treatment on the job, satisfactory working conditions, and an acceptable standard of living. Where he found industrial practices in conflict with his objectives, he urged reform, by legislation and by collective bargaining. Many of his ideas, considered impractical and visionary when he first broached them, have long since been incorporated into reform plans. A self-educated man, who worked in all kinds of jobs from manual labor to research on industrial working conditions, Bisno came to know people from all walks of life, from fellow immigrants and Chicago prostitutes to the leaders of Hull House and the eminent economist John R. Commons. Bisno's account of his early life, presented here as he dictated it sometime between the years 1924 and 1926, is oral history: he describes life in Russia in the 1870s, the deplorable conditions under which the Jewish immigrants lived and worked in Chicago, and the beginnings of unionism in the women's garment industry. This realistic and unsentimental record reflects the keen observation and the forceful personality of an unusual man; it is, in the words of Professor Jack Barbash, 'of major historical importance in understanding the development of the American labor movement and the problems of the immigrant worker.'" -- from the dust jacket. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Bisno, Abraham, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1866-1929. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2208 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Clothing workers |
| General subdivision |
Labor unions |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2209 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Labor leaders |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Biography. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2210 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Seidman, Joel |
| Relator term |
author of introduction, etc. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2211 |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://archive.org/details/abrahambisno0000unse">https://archive.org/details/abrahambisno0000unse</a> |
| Public note |
Click here to access online |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
BOOKS |