Role of the Consumer in 1935, The.
[Labor]. The Role of the Consumer in 1935. Philadelphia: American Federation of Hosiery Workers, 1935.
8vo.; single salmon-colored leaf, folded; front panel illustrated; fine.
Printed by the American Federation of Hosiery Worker and distributed to hosiery consumers, this pamphlet endeavored to garner large support for newly formed labor unions, which aimed to regulate labor standards in the United States, by publishing a “white list’ of those corporations that permitted union organizing. In a plea to the consumer to boycott non-unionized hosiery, the union noted that
those manufacturers of hosiery who continue to work their employees long hours, who refuse to pay prevailing wages and who discharge workers suspected of having a leaning towards trade unionism will in time be influenced by the fact that each year a larger and larger number of persons insist upon knowing something about the human conditions in the places where things they buy are made…
Amidst rising resentment of Nazi dictatorship, manufacturers in the United States were faced with a surge in demand for goods that had been previously imported:
Factories in this country, closed or nearly so, for years [began] running at capacity and idle workers were employed merely because a number of women decided to select certain articled of wearing apparel on some basis other than mere price or appearance…
Unionization played a vital role in pre-WWII manufacturing in an effort to combat “sweatshop” conditions of factories and to assure a certain quality of life for workers.
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