Selections from Oral History Interview with Maida Springer Kemp, International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Author: Elizabeth Balanoff
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 42
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Author: Elizabeth Balanoff
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 42
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maida Springer Kemp
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaida Springer Kemp on Dr. Caroline F. Ware: A supplement to The Black Women Oral History Project. (11 leaves).
Author: Yevette Richards
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2014-06-26
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780822970835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn in Panama in 1910, Maida Springer grew up in Harlem. While still a young girl she learned firsthand of the bleak employment options available to African American females of her time. After one employer closed his garment shop and ran off with the workers' wages in the midst of the Depression, Springer joined Local 22 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.This proved to be the first step in a remarkable advancement through the ranks of labor leadership positions that were typically dominated by white men. Ultimately, Springer became one of the AFL-CIO's most important envoys to emerging African nations, earning her the nickname "Mama Maida" throughout that continent.In this brilliantly edited collection of interviews, Yevette Richards allows Springer to tell her story in her own words. The result is a rare glimpse into the private struggles and thoughts behind one of the twentieth century's most fascinating international labor leaders.
Author: Wayne State University. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1978, the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University conducted oral history interviews with trade-union women. Major subjects covered were: women in trade- unions, wages and benefits, working conditions, and social issues.
Author: Yevette Richards
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2014-06-26
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 082297083X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn in Panama in 1910, Maida Springer grew up in Harlem. While still a young girl she learned firsthand of the bleak employment options available to African American females of her time. After one employer closed his garment shop and ran off with the workers' wages in the midst of the Depression, Springer joined Local 22 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.This proved to be the first step in a remarkable advancement through the ranks of labor leadership positions that were typically dominated by white men. Ultimately, Springer became one of the AFL-CIO's most important envoys to emerging African nations, earning her the nickname "Mama Maida" throughout that continent.In this brilliantly edited collection of interviews, Yevette Richards allows Springer to tell her story in her own words. The result is a rare glimpse into the private struggles and thoughts behind one of the twentieth century's most fascinating international labor leaders.
Author: Evelyn Dubrow
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brigid O'Farrell
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780813522692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRocking the Boat is a celebration of strong, committed women who helped to build the American labor movement. Through the stories of eleven women from a wide range of backgrounds, we experience the turmoil, hardships, and accomplishments of thousands of other union women activists through the period spanning the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the McCarthy era, the civil rights movement, and the women's movement. These women tell powerful stories that highlight and detail women's many roles as workers, trade unionists, and family members. They all faced difficulties in their personal lives, overcame challenges in their unions, and individually and collectively helped improve women's everyday working lives. Maida Springer-Kemp came from New York City's Harlem, Local 22 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, to represent the AFL-CIO in Africa. In Chicago, Alice Peurala fought for her job in the steel mill and her place in the steel workers' union. Jessie De La Cruz organized farm workers in California. Esther Peterson, organizer, educator, and lobbyist, became an advisor to four U.S. presidents. In chapters based on oral history interviews, these women and others provide new perspectives and practical advice for today's working women. They share an idealistic and practical commitment to the labor movement. As Dorothy Haener of the United Auto Workers and a founding member of the National Organization of Women said, "You have to take a look at how to rock the boat. You don't want to spill yourself out if you can avoid it, but sometimes you have to rock the boat." From these women we, too, learn how to rock the boat.
Author: Pauline Newman
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Yevette Richards
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2000-10-15
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780822972631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaida Springer was an active participant in shaping a history that involved powerful movements for social, political and economic equality and justice for workers women, and African Americans. Maida Springer is the first full-length biography to document and analyze the central role played by Springer in international affairs, particularly in the formation of AFL-CIO's African policy during the Cold War and African independence movements. Richards explores the ways in which pan-Africanism, racism, sexism and anti-Communism affected Springer's political development, her labor activism, and her relationship with labor leaders in the AFL-CIO, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), and in African unions. Springer's life experiences and work reveal the complex nature of black struggles for equality and justice. A strong supporter of both the AFL-CIO and the ICFTU, Springer nonetheless recognized that both organizations were fraught with racism, sexism, and ethnocentrism. She also understood that charges of Communism were often used as a way to thwart African American demands for social justice. As an African-American, she found herself in the unenviable position of promoting to Africans the ideals of American democracy from which she was excluded from fully enjoying. Richards's biography of Maida Springer uniquely connects pan-Africanism, national and international labor relations, the Cold War, and African American, labor, women's, and civil rights histories. In addition to documenting Springer's role in international labor relations, the biography provides a larger view of a whole range of political leaders and social movements. Maida Springer is a stirring biography that spans the fields of women studies, African American studies, and labor history.
Author: Janet Zandy
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781558612594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRestored to print--in an expanded edition--the pivotal text in working-class studies.