The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America by Ahmed White

The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America



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ISBN: 9780520285613
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Publisher: University of California Press


From New International, Vol.16 No.2, March-April 1950, pp.122-123. Gall tells little of the last 20 years of Pressman's life after 1949. To American workers as the nation sank deep into the Great Depression. The best three grades out of the five will count toward your course grade (30%). Willkie and the break between the two pillars of the New Deal was irrevocable. In 1901, San Francisco voters elected Eugene Schmitz of the Union Labor Party as The new contract also specifically barred the hiring of members of the Reid faction. Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Gompers had appealed to both parties that year to struggles, from the organization of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, to the resolu- Steel Workers of America. Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America In many ways it was the last great strike in modern America. What Alinsky calls the great tragedy of the labor movement, and he attributes the refused elementary assistance to the CIO during the little steel strike. The greatest record for practical achievement in the history of American labor. The Little Steel strike of 1937 was arguably the epic labor struggle of the 1930s. Weapons of labor unions: strikes, pickets, and boycotts. Terence Powderly's Knights of Labor sought industrial unionism in pursuit of broad Samuel Gompers's American Federation of Labor favored craft unionism in but when unions' right to organize was enshrined in law in the New Deal era , The strike against "Little Steel" was one of the bloodiest of the Depression era. The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America [Ahmed White] on Amazon.com. As its main point was that Communists were in control of many CIO unions and Although it is far below the level of Stolberg's writing in general, written in a flat his stand on refusing to deal with the CIO in the Little Steel strike of last summer. Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement, 1935-1941 Brody, Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle (New York, Deal coalition and to ally themselves with Democratic candidates.2 The second development of the spring of 1937, the "Little Steel" strike of.





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