The CIO Challenge to the Afl: A History of the American Labor Movement, 1935-1941

by Walter Galenson

The period immediately preceding World War II was probably the most critical in the history of the American labor movement. Prior to 1936, the trade unions were weak, but by 1941 a fundamental change in power relationships enabled them to penetrate the strongholds of American industry--steel and automobiles.

The CIO Challenge to the AFL is a three-part study. It discusses the split in the American Federation of Labor and the formation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674131509
• ISBN13: 9780674131507
• Release Date: January 1960
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.3"