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Most feminist labor historians believe that the emergence and rapid general adoption of industrial unionism in the late 1930s was essential for the success of efforts to organize large numbers of women workers into unions. They argue that industrial unionism's commitment to recruiting unskilled workers and its abandonment of racial and gender exclusiveness was more attractive to women workers (who, according to these scholars, were largely unskilled) than was the earlier exclusionary craft-union model. The successful organization of women garment workers in the 1910s does not undermine this dominant view, since the garment unions welcomed women workers of every skill level, prefiguring the industrial form of unionism.
According to the author, the successful organization of women garment workers is consistent with the dominant view of women labor history because
garment unions concentrated their recruitment efforts exclusively on attracting unskilled workers as members
those women garment workers who joined the garment unions were not as skilled as those who refused to join
garment unions accepted both skilled and unskilled workers as members
garment unions lacked exclusionary racial rules as well as rules barring unskilled workers
most garment workers were relatively skilled craft workers rather than unskilled workers
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