Left Out: Reds and America's Industrial Unions

by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052179840X
• ISBN13: 9780521798402
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"