Isaac Hourwich
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Isaac Aronovich Hourwich was a Jewish-American economist, statistician, lawyer, and political activist. Hourwich is best remembered as a pioneer in the development of labor statistics for the American
Isaac Hourwich, American economist and labor statistician.
Meyer London (standing, right) and his wife visit Hourwich's law office c. 1893–1900
Meyer London
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Meyer London was a Lithuanian-born Jewish American lawyer and politician from New York City. He was legal counsel to the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union during the 1910 New York Cloakmake
Isaac Hourwich
…economics of the Russian village. This dissertation was published in book form in 1893 by Columbia College and in Russian translation in Moscow in 1896. Meyer London (standing, right) and his wife visit Hourwich's law office c. 1893–1900 Settling in Chicago, Hourwich was admitted to the Illinois state bar association…
Portrait by Harris & Ewing c. 1915–1923
London (far left) in front of his father's printing shop c. 1891
Congressman Meyer London at a rally for striking Brooklyn streetcar workers, 1916