Oral history interview with Jacob Samuel Potofsky, 1964

Biographical Note

Union official

Scope and Contents

Family background and education in Russia; emigration to United States, Chicago; first job in Hart, Schaffner and Marx; 1910 Chicago clothing worker strike; United Garment Workers; Sidney Hillman; arbitration agreements; formation of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; industrial unionism; union banking; experiments with unemployment insurance; cooperative housing; the Depression; the New Deal

Subjects

• AFL-CIO.
• Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.
• Gold, Neil, interviewer.
• Housing, Cooperative.
• Interviews.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Potofsky, Jacob S. (Jacob Samuel), 1894-1979--Interviews.
• Textile workers--Labor unions.
• Unemployment insurance.
• United Garment Workers.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.

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