The Red Thread : : The Passaic Textile Strike / / Jacob A. Zumoff.

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• VerfasserIn: Zumoff, Jacob A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 p.) :; 20 b-w illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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