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Left out : = Reds and America's industrial unions /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Left out :/ Judith Stepan-Norris, Maurice Zeitlin.
Reminder of title:	Reds and America's industrial unions /
Author:	Stepan-Norris, Judith,
other author:	Zeitlin, Maurice,
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 375 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Labor unions and communism - History. - United States -
Subject:	United States - Defenses -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511499395
ISBN:	9780511499395 (ebook)

Left out : = Reds and America's industrial unions /
Stepan-Norris, Judith,1957-

Left out :Reds and America's industrial unions /Judith Stepan-Norris, Maurice Zeitlin. - 1 online resource (xv, 375 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The Congress of Industrial Organizations : left, right, and center -- 'Who gets the bird?' -- Insurgency, radicalism, and democracy -- Lived democracy: UAW Ford local 600 -- 'Red company unions'? -- Rank-and-file democracy and the 'class struggle in production' -- 'Pin money' and 'pink slips' -- The 'big 3' and interracial solidarity -- The red and the black -- Conclusion: an American tragedy -- Epilogue: the 'third labor federation' that never was.

From the late 1930s through the mid-1950s, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) brought together America's working men and women under a united class banner. Of the 38 CIO unions, 18 were 'left-wing' or 'Communist-dominated'. Yet the political struggle between the CIO's 'Communist dominated' and right-leaning unions was immensely divisive and self-destructive. How did the Communists win, hold, and wield power in the CIO unions? Did they subordinate the needs of workers to those of the Soviet regime? The authors of this book, first published in 2002, provide testable answers to these questions with historically specific quantitative analyses of data on the CIO's origins, internal struggles, and political relations. They find that among the CIO unions, the Communists were more egalitarian, the most progressive on class, race, and gender issues, and leading fighters in struggles to enlarge the freedom and enhance the human dignity of America's workers.

ISBN: 9780511499395 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

801285
Labor unions and communism
--History.--United StatesSubjects--Geographical Terms:

528513
United States
--Defenses

LC Class. No.: HX544 / .S76 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 331.88/33/097309041

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