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The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike - Softcover

Zumoff, Jacob A.

 
9781978809895: The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1978809891 ISBN 13: 9781978809895
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2021

Synopsis

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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About the Author

JACOB A. ZUMOFF is the author of The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929. He is an assistant professor of history at New Jersey City University.
 

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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1978809891
ISBN 13 
9781978809895
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
248