02433nam 22004333 450 991082833550332120230630003435.01-9788-0991-3(CKB)4100000011955139(MiAaPQ)EBC6637013(Au-PeEL)EBL6637013(OCoLC)1256448260(BIP)077642111(EXLCZ)99410000001195513920210901d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Red Thread The Passaic Textile StrikeNew Brunswick :Rutgers University Press,2021.©2021.1 online resource (249 pages)1-9788-0990-5 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."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"--Red Thread EconomicsBusiness & Economics331.89287700974923Zumoff Jacob A1118955MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828335503321The Red Thread4027480UNINA