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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781978809901
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-9788-0990-1
- Verlag: Rutgers University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 16.07.2021
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2021
- Produktform: Gebunden, Hardback
- Gewicht: 458 g
- Seiten: 212
- Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 20 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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