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Left out : Reds and America's industrial unions

Author: Judith Stepan-Norris; Maurice Zeitlin
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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 thirty-eight CIO unions, eighteen were "left-wing" or "Communist-dominated." Yet the political stuggle between the CIO's "Communist-dominated" and right-wing unions was divisive and self-destructive. How did the Communists win, hold, and wield  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Judith Stepan-Norris; Maurice Zeitlin
ISBN: 0521792126 9780521792127 052179840X 9780521798402
OCLC Number: 47168691
Description: xv, 375 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Judith Stepan-Norris, Maurice Zeitlin.
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"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 thirty-eight CIO unions, eighteen were "left-wing" or "Communist-dominated." Yet the political stuggle between the CIO's "Communist-dominated" and right-wing unions was 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 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 the CIO's Communist-led unions were among the most egalitarian and progressive on class, race, and gender issues, and fought to enlarge the freedom and enhance the human dignity of America's workers."--Jacket.

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