The Red Thread : : The Passaic Textile Strike /

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

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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...

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

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