The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike
Jacob A. Zumoff, "The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike"
English | ISBN: 1978809891 | 2021 | 248 pages | EPUB, PDF | 17 MB + 14 MB
English | ISBN: 1978809891 | 2021 | 248 pages | EPUB, PDF | 17 MB + 14 MB
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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