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Textile Workers Union of America Scrapbooks

Call Number

WAG.249

Date

1948-1962, inclusive

Creator

Textile Workers Union of America

Extent

6.25 Linear Feet In 15 Manuscript Boxes

Language of Materials

English .

Historical/Biographical Note

The Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) was an industrial union of textile workers established through the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1939 and which merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to become the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) in 1976. As a leading organization in the CIO's "Operation Dixie," it led numerous organizing campaigns in the union-resistant South, aiming to help textile workers achieve higher wages, health insurance and other benefits, and to ensure fair labor practices. The TWUA was able to organize new plants and revive some moribund organizations, but it was unable to achieve a breakthrough win which would organize the whole industry. The TWUA's textile locals eventually became part of UNITE/HERE, a manufacturing and hospitality workers union.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of large scrapbooks dating approximately from 1948 to 1962 containing conference and meeting reports, as well as statistical data gathered by the TWUA's Research Department.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives has no information about copyright ownership for this collection and is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from it. Materials in this collection, which were created in 1948-1962, are expected to enter the public domain in 2083.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; Textile Workers Union of America Scrapbooks; WAG 249; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Materials found in repository; provenance is unknown. The accession number associated with this collection is 1950.058.

Collection processed by

Maggie Schreiner

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-20 16:37:13 -0400.
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Language: Description is in English

Revisions to this Guide

March 2020: Edited by Laura Juliano to reflect the rehousing of materials

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012