Poster, "Viva la Huelga Don't buy Farrah pants!"
Poster, "Viva la Huelga/ Don't buy Farrah pants!"
- Description
- A green poster with black and white text; "Viva la Huelga/ Don't buy Farrah pants!" In the 1970s, garment unions represented about 850,000 workers out of a total industry work force of 1.3 million. Membership declined rapidly as businesses moved offshore and into the non-union South and Southwest. In 1995, garment unions with a combined membership of about 335,000 merged to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees (UNITE). Organizing new workers has been a major priority.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- associated institution
- Farah of Texas
- Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
- maker
- Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
- referenced
- United States: Texas
- United States: New Mexico
- Measurements
- overall: 22 in x 14 in; 55.88 cm x 35.56 cm
- ID Number
- 1981.0452.07
- accession number
- 1981.0452
- catalog number
- 1981.0452.07
- Credit Line
- Philip and Jeff Foisie
- subject
- History, Reform Movements, Economic Protest
- Labor Unions
- labor issues
- Textile Processing and Production
- Strikes and Boycotts
- Mexican-Americans and/or Chicanos
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Political History
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Sweatshops
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
