Reminiscences of Alice Ip, 2004

Biographical Note

Business Agent and Community Liaison Director, UNITE

Scope and Contents

Background: born Hong Kong, immigration to U.S. 1976; career: garment industry worker and union activist, shop steward for UNITE [Union of Needle Trades, Industrial and Textile Employees]; 1982 garment workers strike; 9/11: witnessing North Tower fire and South Tower impact from Fulton Street; post-9/11: challenges to garment industry, role of Buddhism

Subjects

• Class 807, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Clothing workers--New York (State)--New York--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Ip, Alice, 1949-
• Labor union members--New York (State)--New York--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
• Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees--Officials and employees--Interviews.

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