The Red Thread

The Passaic Textile Strike
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-9788-0990-1
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zumoff, Jacob A

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Textilindustrie
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht Betriebsverfassung, Personalvertretung, Mitbestimmungsrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Über Autor(innen)

Jacob A. Zumoff is the author of The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929. He is an assistant professor of history at New Jersey City University.