The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike

by Jacob A. Zumoff

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978809905
• ISBN13: 9781978809901
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher