- 212 pages
- English
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About this book
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.
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Publisher
Rutgers University PressYear
2021Print ISBN
9781978809895, 9781978809901eBook ISBN
9781978809918Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of 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