The Gentle General

The Gentle GeneralThis is the first major biography of Rose Pesotta, the organizer and vice president of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) from 1933 to 1944. After moving to the United States from the Ukraine in 1913, Pesotta became involved in the resurgence of the garment workers' industry, women's labor colleges, and labor activism. While working for the union, she confronted serious opposition as a woman and an anarchist within an all male

historic cinemas and film venues around the city

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updated older studies and a new introduction by the author

it remained a largely agricultural community until the mid 20th century

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the standard laser beam has evolved into an array of more specialized light beams with a variety of strange and counter-intuitive properties

This book assesses the challenges that lobbying

and this book marks the strong continuation of that long tradition

the knowledge of ecosystems guides the way

Expert systems are viewed as just one manifestation of AI in practical software

and about the changing character of public culture

This book interrogates the depiction of same-sex desire in contemporary literature and film by artists of Muslim heritage