BIBFRAME Work

Title

We always had a union

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Richman, Shaun (author)

Subject

• Hotels--Employees--Labor unions--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century
• New York (N.Y.)--Economic conditions--20th century
• Labor unions and communism--New York (State)--New York

Language

• English

Classification

• ClassificationDdc: 331.7/6164794097471
• ClassificationLcc: HD8039.H82 U675 2025

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Content

• text

Summary

"One of New York City's most powerful unions, the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, AFL-CIO, represents almost 40,000 workers. Shaun Richman's history places the labor organization within the context of American industrial and craft unionism and reveals how it came to influence politics and economic development in the city and beyond. From the start, New York's organized hotel workers experimented with and adapted how they organized and governed members and related to other labor unions. Richman follows union fortunes from early IWW activity through the Communist-led affiliates of the American Federation of Labor in the 1920s and 1930s, the shaping of breakthrough negotiating strategies, and the postwar era. As Richman shows, workers adopted a radicalism and militancy seldom associated with an AFL organization while openly negotiating the Communist Party's power and influence within the union, until the Party's eclipse in the 1950s. An inspiring story of action and perseverance, We Always Had a Union profiles a foundational American labor union and offers lessons for today's workers and organizers"-- Provided by publisher.

Authorized Access Point

Richman, Shaun. We always had a union

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-07-20T22:03:49.049517+00:00
• Agent: bcld
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23969098

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-07-20
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc