| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Passaic, New Jersey -- The strike begins -- The communist party and the start of the Passaic strike -- Bringing Passaic to the labor movement -- Enter the politicians -- Repression and class-struggle defense -- Building relief and solidarity -- Women, the family, and the Passaic strike -- The end of the strike -- After the strike. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Textile Workers' Strike, Passaic, N.J., 1926.
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Wages -- Textile workers -- New Jersey -- Passaic.
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Wages -- Textile workers. |
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New Jersey -- Passaic. |
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HISTORY -- General. |
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Textile Workers' Strike (Passaic, New Jersey : 1926) |
| Chronological Term |
1926 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Zumoff, Jacob A. Red thread. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021] 9781978809895 (DLC) 2020043346 (OCoLC)1198556607 |
| ISBN |
9781978809932 (electronic book) |
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197880993X (electronic book) |
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9781978809918 (electronic book) |
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1978809913 (electronic book) |
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9781978809895 |
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1978809891 |
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9781978809901 |
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1978809905 |
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