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Autore |
Zumoff Jacob A |
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Titolo |
The Red Thread : The Passaic Textile Strike |
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New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2021 |
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©2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 pages) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- 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 -- About the Author. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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 nations 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"-- |
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