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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Kenneth C. Wolensky, Nicole H. Wolensky, and Robert P. Wolensky. Fighting for the Union Label: The Women's Garment Industry and the ILGWU in Pennsylvania. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 275. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95.

This book is a significant addition to the history of the U. S. garment industry and labor movement. By focusing on the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania from the 1940s to the 1960s, the Wolenskys have integrated a "non- New York" story into the canonical history of the ILGWU. 1

As the authors relate, the ILGWU developed in the Wyoming Valley with the growth of runaway garment factories in the 1930s, when surplus labor increased due to the decline of the hard coal industry and a new transportation line facilitated shipping between Pennsylvania and New York. The union did not make significant strides, however, until 1944, when Minnie Lurye Matheson arrived. With the support of women garment workers and her husband Wilfred (Bill), Matheson endured many hardships, including the murder of her brother, and yet managed to build a strong union in the area. By the time she departed for New York to lead the Union Label Department in 1963, the Wyoming Valley District, with its nearly 10,000 members, had become the second largest ILGWU stronghold in Pennsylvania and a major social and political force in local affairs. . . .

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