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CER | Solidarity Twenty Years After (6345 words) |
 | Solidarity’s disintegration gave rise to a vast array of parties and groupings with which we are all too familiar. |
| Solidarity as we know it today, even if it leans toward Christian-Democratic and maybe nationalist ideals, is not as radical in this respect as certain parties allied with it under the AWS umbrella. |
| Solidarity as one of the formative historical experiences that has led us today to see the centrality of civil society to democracy and its normative substance. |
| Sidney Hillman (1887 - 1946) (1267 words) |
| He sought "constructive cooperation" between the union and garment firms to ensure the economic health of the industry and raise the standards of workers within it and pioneered dispute resolution mechanisms that foreshadowed today's grievance and arbitration procedures. |
| Abramowitz was an important labor leader in her own right, having been one of the original leaders of the 1910 strike, and she remained active in the labor movement after their marriage in 1916 and the birth of their two daughters. |
| By 1920, the union had contracts with 85 percent of the nation's garment manufacturers (representing some 177,000 workers), had reduced the workweek to 44 hours and was seeking to reduce it to 40. |
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