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The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike

Book information

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781978809932
DOI
10.36019/9781978809932
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4190739 bytes)
Pages
212\248
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 14:06:11

Description

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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