With these hands

United States, 1950

Film
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The story of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union. Signing his retirement blank, Alexander Brody looks back over the years to 1910 when the ILGWU was founded; he remembers the days of the pickets, the Great Revolt, the harrowing holocaust of the Triangle fire, the days of trouble in the 1920s and finally the emergence of union power. The film also illustrates the present work of the union. With Sam Levene, Arlene Francis and Joseph Wiseman.

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Credits

director

Jack Arnold

production company

International Ladies Garment Workers' Union

Promotional Films

Duration

00:50:40:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1950

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

323141

Language

English

Subject categories

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Labor disputes

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - United States

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Labor - History

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Labor and laboring classes - United States

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Labor disputes

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Labor movement

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Trade-unions - History

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Trade-unions - Officials and employees

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Trade-unions - United States

History → History

History → Labor - History

History → Labor movement

History → Trade-unions - History

Short films

Short films → Short films - United States

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q2544546

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