#PUBLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL JINGLE FULL#
#PUBLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL JINGLE TV#

Five years later, San Francisco’s cigar makers created the first “union label,” which they affixed to boxes of cigars produced in union shops. And, as we learned in researching and preparing the video, the “Union Label” song has a fascinating history of its own, one that brings together several strains of women’s history, music history, and labor history in the 1970s.Video Player(javascript:void(0) )The Origins of the Union LabelThe first record of any sort of union labeling in the United States appears in 1869, when the Carpenter’s Eight-Hour League of San Francisco created a stamp for lumber produced by mills that employed workers for eight hours a day (and not 10, as was then common).

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The version we chose-one of several the union produced-offers our visitors a recognizable, nostalgic piece of recent history, and also serves as a great introduction to the themes of our show (you can watch it in full below). It has the triumphal quality of a march (or a drinking song), and like all the most effective jingles, it sticks in your head immediately and will remain there for decades (if our informal survey of our colleagues is any indication).After the fourth or fifth time someone starting singing, we realized the advertisement had to appear in the show.

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The song was the soundtrack to an advertisement that premiered on TV and radio in 1975. New-York Historical Society.Speak or show the phrase “look for the union label” to anyone who watched television in the 1970s or 1980s, and they are liable to start singing or humming the ILGWU’s ditty of the same name. These little bits of mass-produced paper and plastic, it turned out, could help us tell a big, broad story about women’s organizing.Even more remarkably, they had the power to make people break into song.International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union keychain, ca. In doing so, they created connections that helped shape women’s movements beyond the factories, from the fight for suffrage in the 1910s to the effort to pass the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s. When the women who made clothing asked the women who bought it to support garment workers-as they did throughout the 20th century-they sought to build solidarity along lines of gender. Produced from the 1960s through the 1990s as part of the ILGWU’s massive “Union Label” campaign, this swag helped us frame our narrative. These items-notebooks, emery boards, rain bonnets, key chains, and more-all implored people to “Look for the Union Label” when buying women’s and children’s clothing. Early on, we found a handful of giveaway items-”swag”-from the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) in our museum collections.

VisitExhibitionsProgramsLibraryEducationExploreShop Join & Give Host an Event Shop Dine Admission Tickets Apin Women at the Center“Look for the Union Label”: A History of the ILGWU’s Iconic JingleWhen we set out to curate a show on the history of women’s work and organizing in the garment industry, we started, as we always do, by digging through our own archives at the New-York Historical Society. CensusMembershipFAQsMuseum & Store Hours: 11 am – 5 pm Library Hours: 10 am – 4:30 pm Join & GiveHost an EventShopDineAdmission TicketsAdmission TicketsSuggested TermsVirtual ExhibitionsThe Civil WarU.S. “Look for the Union Label”: A History of the ILGWU’s Iconic Jingle | New-York Historical Society Skip to contentVisitExhibitionsProgramsLibraryEducationExploreShopSuggested TermsVirtual ExhibitionsThe Civil WarU.S.

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