Left Out
Reds and America's Industrial Unions
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 21 October 2002
- ISBN 9780521792127
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 229x152x25 mm
- Weight 740 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 b/w illus. 22 tables 0
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Short description:
This book, first published in 2002, analyzes the legacy of the Communists in the CIO between the 1930s and 1950s.
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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 38 CIO unions, 18 were 'left-wing' or 'Communist-dominated'. Yet the political struggle between the CIO's 'Communist dominated' and right-leaning unions was immensely 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 of this book, first published in 2002, 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 among the CIO unions, the Communists were more egalitarian, the most progressive on class, race, and gender issues, and leading fighters in struggles to enlarge the freedom and enhance the human dignity of America's workers.
Left Out is a meticulous and comprehensive history of the Communist contribution to democracy, militancy, and racial justice in the dynamic unions that emerged out of America's Depression-era labor upsurge. Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin skillfully deploy the tools of both sociologists and historians to uncover a vast, variegated world of left-wing thought and praxis, in the process demonstrating how tragic and debilitating was the destruction of this left-wing union current in the early Cold War years." Nelson Lichtenstein, author of State of the Union: A Century of American Labor
Table of Contents:
1. The congress of industrial organizations (CIO): left, right, and center; 2. 'Who gets the bird?'; 3. Insurgency, radicalism, and democracy; 4. Lived democracy: UAW local 600; 5. 'Red company unions'?; 6. Rank-and-file democracy and the 'class struggle in production'; 7. Strangers to their own class?; 8. 'Pin money' and 'pink slips'; 9. The 'big 3' and interracial solidarity; 10. The red and the black; 11. Conclusion: an American tragedy; 12. Epilogue: the specter of a 'third labor federation'.
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