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The Official Three Stooges Encyclopedia: The Ultimate Knucklehead's Guide to Stoogedom--from Amalgamated Association of Morons to Ziller...
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The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons
The Three Stooges are admittedly an acquired taste. To fully appreciate them, as with NASCAR racing, practical jokes, and Steely Dan, it helps to be a guy. But there's no denying the durability of the Stooges' fearless physical performances. Every eye poke, noggin crack, face slap, and nyuk-nyuk-nyuk feels as edgy today as it did in their earliest two-reelers, and it's safe to say that their routines, for better or worse, helped pave the way for the Farrelly brothers, the Zucker brothers, Adam Sandler, and Jim Carrey. Michael Fleming, a columnist for Daily Variety, has diligently compiled the history of the Stooges, from their vaudeville days through the height of their fame in the '30s to the '50s and beyond. What An Illustrated History lacks in clear organization it more than makes up for in attention to detail, about the lives of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard (plus the other "third Stooges," Shemp Howard, Joe Besser, and Curly Joe DeRita); the genesis of their routines; and the heavy-handed business deals that left them, the most successful comedians of their day, with virtually no residual income. The book's best segment dissects each two-reeler and film (including Men in Black, the only Stooge short to be nominated for an Oscar), with a wealth of publicity photos and a tally of slaps, eye pokes, and head conks. Might Fleming make even non-Stooge fans appreciate their humor? Why, soitenly. --Anne Hurley.
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A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing (Working Class in American History)
Karen Pastorello’s pathbreaking study is the first biography of Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the first scholarship to place this remarkable leader at the center of the founding of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Bridging the gap between progressive-era social feminists and labor feminists of the postwar era, Hillman worked to end race and class injustice and improve the quality of life for working women, even as she was overshadowed by her husband, union leader Sidney Hillman. Interweaving Hillman’s experiences as an Eastern European Jewish immigrant with a rich historical account of the founding and development of a key garment union, Pastorello reveals the prominent role of women labor activists both in the workplace and in the unions. .
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Frenzied Finance: The Crime Of Amalgamated
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Garment unions UNITE. (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees): An article from: Multinational Monitor
This digital document is an article from Multinational Monitor, published by Essential Information, Inc. on June 1, 1995. The length of the article is 2153 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the supplier: The International Ladies Garment Workers Union and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union have decided to merge and form a new labor union. The new union will be called the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees and will have a total membership of 350,000. The two unions decided to merge to consolidate their efforts to preserve jobs in the US. Many US textile companies have opted to move their manufacturing overseas to reduce production costs. Citation DetailsTitle: Garment unions UNITE. (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees) Author: Laura McClure Publication:Multinational Monitor (Refereed) Date: June 1, 1995 Publisher: Essential Information, Inc. Volume: v16 Issue: n6 Page: p14(3) Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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