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II - Waitresses Turn to Economic and Political Organization: The Emergence and Survival of Waitress Unionism, 1900-1930

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Sue Cobble, D. (1992). The Emergence and Survival of Waitress Unionism, 1900-1930. In Sue Cobble, D. Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century. University of Illinois Press, pp. 61-85

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Waitresses turned to unionization as early as the 1880s, forming separate all-female unions as well as locals that included male waiters and other food service crafts. With the help of the Federated Trades Council of San Francisco and the International Workingmen's Association, San Francisco waitresses organized a separate local on May 25, 1886, while Los Angeles waitresses united with male culinary workers in requesting that the White Cooks, Waiters and Employees Protective Union of the Pacific Coast charter a mixed-gender and craft local. Many of these earliest locals affiliated briefly with the Knights of Labor, but by the mid-1890s most had either disbanded or cast their lot with the newly emerging AFL.4

—p.61 by Dorothy Sue Cobble 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Waitresses turned to unionization as early as the 1880s, forming separate all-female unions as well as locals that included male waiters and other food service crafts. With the help of the Federated Trades Council of San Francisco and the International Workingmen's Association, San Francisco waitresses organized a separate local on May 25, 1886, while Los Angeles waitresses united with male culinary workers in requesting that the White Cooks, Waiters and Employees Protective Union of the Pacific Coast charter a mixed-gender and craft local. Many of these earliest locals affiliated briefly with the Knights of Labor, but by the mid-1890s most had either disbanded or cast their lot with the newly emerging AFL.4

—p.61 by Dorothy Sue Cobble 4 months, 4 weeks ago