Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-367) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The Congress of Industrial Organizations : left, right, and center -- 'Who gets the bird?' -- Insurgency, radicalism, and democracy -- Lived democracy: UAW Ford local 600 -- 'Red company unions'? -- Rank-and-file democracy and the 'class struggle in production' -- 'Pin money' and 'pink slips' -- The 'big 3' and interracial solidarity -- The red and the black -- Conclusion: an American tragedy -- Epilogue: the 'third labor federation' that never was.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"From the late 1930s through the mid-1950s, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) brought together America's working men and women under a united class banner. Of the thirty-eight CIO unions, eighteen were "left-wing" or "Communist-dominated." Yet the political stuggle between the CIO's "Communist-dominated" and right-wing unions was divisive and self-destructive. How did the Communists win, hold, and wield power in the CIO unions? Did they subordinate the needs of workers to those of the Soviet regime? The authors provide testable answers to these questions with historically specific, quantitative analyses of data on the CIO's origins, internal struggles, and political relations. They find that the CIO's Communist-led unions were among the most egalitarian and progressive on class, race, and gender issues, and fought to enlarge the freedom and enhance the human dignity of America's workers."--Jacket.
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International Standard Book Number
0521792126
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Congress of Industrial Organizations (Etats-Unis)-- Histoire.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Labor unions and communism-- United States-- History.
Labor unions-- Political activity-- United States.
Syndicats et communisme-- États-Unis-- Histoire.
Syndicats-- États-Unis-- Activité politique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Labor.
Communisme.
Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Gewerkschaft
Kommunismus
Labor unions and communism.
Labor unions-- Political activity.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Politics and government
Politische Beteiligung
Syndicats-- Activité politique-- Etats-Unis-- 20e siècle.
Syndicats et communisme-- États-Unis-- 20e siècle.
Vakverenigingen.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States, Politics and government.
États-Unis, Politique et gouvernement.
États-Unis, Politique et gouvernement, 20e siècle.