| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

Labor in Retreat: Class and Community among Men's Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1871- 1929. By Youngsoo Bae. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. xiv, 295 pp. Cloth, $78.50, ISBN 0-7914-5117-8. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-7914-5118-6.)

Why did the American labor movement decline so drastically in the 1920s? Youngsoo Bae, the author of Labor in Retreat, attempts to answer this question by tracing the rise and decline of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACW) between the 1910s and 1920s. Situating his study in its historical context, Bae argues that the progressive spirit of the ACW was grounded in the two major men's clothing workers' strikes in Chicago in 1910-1911 and 1919. By setting out to organize the semiskilled immigrant workers, who numerically dominated the industry, and demanding changes in their adverse working conditions, the ACW managed to replace the craft-based United Garment Workers (UGW) and emerge as the major union in the men's clothing industry. By 1920 it had enrolled nearly 170,000 members, the majority of the industry's work force. . . .

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