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The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike de Jacob A. Zumoff

The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike

Autor Jacob A. Zumoff
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 iul 2021 – vârsta ani
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781978809901
ISBN-10: 1978809905
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 20 b-w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press

Notă biografică

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.
 

Cuprins


Illustrations 
Abbreviations Used in Text 
Introduction: The Passaic Textile Strike of 1926 
1 Passaic, New Jersey 
2 The Strike Begins 
3 The Communist Party and the Start of the Passaic Strike 
4 Bringing Passaic to the Labor Movement 
5 Enter the Politicians 
6 Repression and Class-Struggle Defense
7 Building Relief and Solidarity 
8 Women, the Family, and the Passaic Strike 
9 The End of the Strike 
10 After the Strike 
Acknowledgments 
Abbreviations Used in Notes 
Notes 
Selected Bibliography 
Index 

Recenzii

"Zumoff’s work is an important addition to the history of both the American labor movement and the history of the American Left. Zumoff has combed monographs, manuscripts, and memoirs to develop a rich historical narrative of the 1926 Passaic Strike, its origins, its aftermath, and larger meaning."

"I have focused as a labor history scholar for almost twenty-five years, and I feel The Red Thread represents the highest standards of scholarship in the field, and is especially interesting for the new ground it covers on the development of radical politics and class consciousness in the Garden State before the Great Depression--a period which is too often overlooked."

"Jacob A. Zumoff pulls the story of one of New Jersey's longest work stoppages from the historical shadows."

"Red Thread is a riveting deep-dive into that history. Let us hope our upsurge is coming. We have work to do to prepare."



"As a Northern New Jerseyan (not a Jerseyite) with an interest in labor history, I knew about the 1913 Paterson Silk Workers Strike, and the involvement therewith of the 'Wobblies,' back when Paterson was 'Silk City.' Now, thanks to author Jacob A. Zumoff, I know about the context, the events, and the consequences of another radical-tinged strike in my home territory, the Passaic Textile Strike of 1926, which shut down the Botany and Forstmann woolen mills, and others, in Passaic and nearby towns for a year."

"The Red Thread’s most impressive feature is its rich amount of archival research....A compelling account of Passaic in 1926 and those whose lives were transformed by the strike. Zumoff ’s major contribution to the historiography of this event is his central positioning of cp materials when analyzing the development of the strike which com- pel the reader to consider the cp’s spirited willingness to organize oppressed American workers established unions preferred to ignore."

Descriere

This book tells the story of how 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 during the Great Depression.