LaTour, Jane
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Name (Latin)
LaTour, Jane
Date of birth
1946-05-03
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Labor unions
Women labor union members
Occupation
Archivists
Authors
Journalists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
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Sources of Information
- New York times, 7 Apr. 2023:in an obituary on page A21 (Jane LaTour; born Jane Ellen Latour (she capitalized the T in her surname after she started writing professionally) on May 3, 1946 in Burlington, Vt., died Monday [3 Apr. 2023] in the Bronx [New York], aged 76; a union activist and writer who chronicled the lives of women in traditionally male labor unions, documenting their battles with both their employers and their unions; LaTour often criticized labor leaders, whom she accused of not representing the needs of their rank and file; Worked for the Association for Union Democracy, where she ran the Women's Project, for the New York Labor History Association, as an archivist for the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University, and for 20 years worked as a journalist for "Public Employee Press," the official publication of District Council 37 of AFSCME)
- LaTour, Jane. Sisters in the brotherhoods, 2008:eCIP t.p. (Jane LaTour)