Left out : Reds and America's industrial unions / Judith Stepan-Norris, Maurice Zeitlin.

By:

Stepan-Norris, Judith, 1957-

Contributor(s):

Zeitlin, Maurice, 1935-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 375 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780511077869
0511077866
9780511499395
0511499396
9780511076299
0511076290
1280436352
9781280436352
6610436355
9786610436354
1107129869
9781107129863
0511203918
9780511203916
0511306822
9780511306822

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Left out.DDC classification:

331.88/33/097309041 22

LOC classification:

HX544 .S76 2003eb

Other classification:

15.85

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Contents:

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.

Review: "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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-367) and indexes.

"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