| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jo Ann E. Argersinger. Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899–1939. (Studies in Industry and Society.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999. Pp. x, 229. $39.95.

This superbly researched study offers an inclusive interpretative model that combines labor history and business history with institutional, social, and cultural analysis. Focusing primarily on Baltimore and its men's garment industry in the period before 1920, Jo Ann E. Argersinger explores the turbulent establishment of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers' Union (AGW). This struggle involved not only organizing the primarily female workforce in Baltimore's small sweatshops and large modern factories but also battling the skilled male workers well entrenched in crafts locals affiliated with the United Garment Workers' Union (AFL) and the radical immigrants in the Industrial Workers of the World. Linking the development of the Baltimore AGW to its other organizational centers in Chicago, New York City, Rochester, and other northeastern cities, this book expertly widens the scope of community studies, following regional lines of market competition in clothing manufacturing as well as the national politics of the AGW unions. This geographic reach is complemented by the inclusion of gender, cultural, ethnic, and racial analysis as well as state regulation, suffrage campaigns, and labor reform politics. . . .

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