National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 COLL MISC 0674
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers
Date(s)	: 1893-1953
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: One box
Name of creator(s)	: National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers was formed in 1932. It consisted of various smaller unions, among them the Amalgamated Society of Tailors, the London Society of Tailors and Tailoresses, the United Clothing Workers Union and the National Unions of Tailors and Garment Workers. In 1991 it joined the General Municipal and Boilermakers (GMB).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, including the Amalgamated Society of Tailoresses and the United Clothing Workers' Union, comprising 1. Amalgamated Society of Tailors; 2. London Society of Tailors and Tailoresses (formerly West End Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses); 3.United Clothing Workers' Union; 4. National Unions of Tailors and Garment Workers.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Four folders containing the papers of the four unions.

Conditions governing access:

OPEN

Conditions governing reproduction:

APPLY TO ARCHIVIST

Finding aids:

Printed handlist available

Archival Information

Archival history:

These papers were collected by Mrs S Lerner for her thesis "The United Clothing Workers' Union- a study in social disorganisation".

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Output from CAIRS using template 14 and checked by hand on May 8, 2002

Rules or conventions:

Date(s) of descriptions:
8 May 2002