Jewish Workers and the Labour Movement

Hofmeester, Karin; Mitzman, Lee

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“…Skirmishes broke out during a meeting convened by brilliant polishers masters and assistants. 13 Former strike leader and future secretary of the ANDB, Jan van Zutphen, explained that the rate adjustments meant assessing surcharges above the wages of the lowest paid (i.e., largely non-Jewish) workers who "paid for their own costs." On the other hand, fixed-rate workers earning more than the average rate (predominantly Jewish polishers) would have to take pay cuts.…”

Section: Overcoming Racial Dividesmentioning

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The Impact of the Diamond Industry and the Diamond Workers' Union on Jewish Life in Amsterdam, 1894–1920

Hofmeester¹

2020

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By the late nineteenth century, Amsterdam had the largest diamond industry in the world, employing some 29 percent of all Jewish working men and 10 percent of all Jewish working women. Their economic activities in this field were closely connected to the social, cultural, familial, and political sphere. In many ways the Algemene Nederlandse Diamantbewerkersbond (the General Dutch Diamond Workers' Union, or ANDB) formed the direct link between these different spheres. The union brought together men and women (including married women), Jews and non-Jews, working in various professions, under different payment systems and working conditions, developing standard wages equal for all. While the primary goal was economic, the outcome had at least as many social and cultural consequences, including a change in social relationships between Jewish and non-Jewish workers as well as a growing number of women, who continued working after marriage. The case study of the ANDB in Amsterdam allows for a broad interpretation of 'economy' in Jewish history.

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Section: Overcoming Racial Dividesmentioning

confidence: 99%