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Article: David Dubinsky: a life with social significance. (labor leader)
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1994
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Drawing on his immigrant heritage, David Dubinsky envisioned a worldwide socioeconomic role for unions; his ideals were a major force in molding the U.S. labor movement
In his history of the United States, entitled America, George Brown Tindall noted a new sense of "commitment and affirmation" abroad in the land during the years of the Great Depression. According to Tindal, this spirit found expression in a most unusual 1937 Broadway musical inspired by the president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, David Dubinsky. "The surprisingly popular musical show, Pins and Needles, put on by members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, ...