Paul Pinsky oral history
Scope and Contents
Sound recording of interview with Paul Pinsky conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Recalls U.C. Berkeley; labor organizing, 1930s; discusses career as Research Director, California CIO Council, late 1930s-late 1940s; represented International Fishermen & Allied Workers of America (IFAWA) and Marine Cooks and Stewards (MCS) at their CIO purge trials, 1950; consultant to ILWU specializing in employee benefit and union insurance plans; searching comments on ILWU leadership.
Dates
- 1995 October 24-25
Creator
- Pinsky, Paul (Person)
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyrighted. Rights are owned by Labor Archives and Research Center (LARC), J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Biography
Longtime labor activist and consultant to unions in California and Hawaii.
Extent
3 audio cassettes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with Paul Pinsky conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Recalls U.C. Berkeley; labor organizing, 1930s; discusses career as Research Director, California CIO Council, late 1930s-late 1940s; represented International Fishermen & Allied Workers of America (IFAWA) and Marine Cooks and Stewards (MCS) at their CIO purge trials, 1950; consultant to ILWU specializing in employee benefit and union insurance plans; searching comments on ILWU leadership.
Acquisition
Interview conducted by Harvey Schwartz, 1995.
- Audiocassettes.
- International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America
- International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
- Labor leaders -- California -- Interviews.
- Labor movement -- California -- History.
- Labor unions -- California -- History.
- Marine Cooks and Stewards Union
- Oral histories.
- Schwartz, Harvey
Creator
- Pinsky, Paul (Person)
- Title
- Paul Pinsky oral history
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid created by Labor Archives and Research Center staff.
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in: English.
Repository Details
Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu