The Red Thread
The Passaic Textile Strike
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2021
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0989-5 (ISBN)
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0989-5 (ISBN)
Tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers' struggle in the US, captured the nation's imagination and came to symbolize the struggle of workers throughout the country.
This book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The strikers were mainly immigrants and half were women. The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers’ struggle in the United States, captured the nation’s imagination and came to symbolize the struggle of workers throughout the country when the labor movement as a whole was in decline during the conservative, pro-business 1920s. Although the strike was defeated, many of the methods and tactics of the Passaic strike presaged the struggles for industrial unions a decade later in the Great Depression.
This book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The strikers were mainly immigrants and half were women. The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers’ struggle in the United States, captured the nation’s imagination and came to symbolize the struggle of workers throughout the country when the labor movement as a whole was in decline during the conservative, pro-business 1920s. Although the strike was defeated, many of the methods and tactics of the Passaic strike presaged the struggles for industrial unions a decade later in the Great Depression.
JACOB A. ZUMOFF is the author of The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929. He is an assistant professor of history at New Jersey City University.
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Abbreviations Used in Text
Introduction: The Passaic Textile Strike of 1926
1 Passaic, New Jersey
2 The Strike Begins
3 The Communist Party and the Start of the Passaic Strike
4 Bringing Passaic to the Labor Movement
5 Enter the Politicians
6 Repression and Class-Struggle Defense
7 Building Relief and Solidarity
8 Women, the Family, and the Passaic Strike
9 The End of the Strike
10 After the Strike
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Used in Notes
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 09.06.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 20 b-w illustrations |
Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 4 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Wirtschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-9788-0989-1 / 1978809891 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-9788-0989-5 / 9781978809895 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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