A Power Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America

by Karen Pastorello

Karen Pastorello's pathbreaking biography of Bessie Abramowitz Hillman places this remarkable labor leader and Progressive Era activist at the center of the founding of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Bridging the gap between Progressive social feminism and the labor feminists of the post-World War II period, Hillman worked to end race and class injustice and improve the quality of life for working women, even as she was overshadowed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252032306
• ISBN13: 9780252032301
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"