The CIO, 1935-1955
The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) encompassed the largest sustained surge of worker organization in American history. Robert Zieger charts the rise of this industrial union movement, from the founding of the CIO by John L. Lewis in 1935 to its merger under Walter Reuther with the American Federation of Labor in 1955. Exploring themes of race and gender, Zieger combines the institutional history of the CIO with vivid depictions of working-class life in this critical period. Zieger d…
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- Full title :The CIO, 1935-1955 / Robert H. Zieger.
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The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) encompassed the largest sustained surge of worker organization in American history. Robert Zieger charts the rise of this industrial union movement, from the founding of the CIO by John L. Lewis in 1935 to its merger under Walter Reuther with the American Federation of Labor in 1955. Exploring themes of race and gender, Zieger combines the institutional history of the CIO with vivid depictions of working-class life in this critical period. Zieger details the ideological conflicts that racked the CIO even as its leaders strove to establish a.
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- Publication Date:©1995.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication:Chapel Hill
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1995.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (x, 491 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:080786644X, 9780807866443
- oclc:ocm45730606
- LC Classification:HD8055.C75
- Dewey Decimal:331.88/33/09730904
Table of Contents
Introduction: the fragile juggernaut -- Before the CIO -- Founding the CIO, 1935-1936 -- Over the top, 1936-1937 -- The diverse arenas of the CIO, 1936-1938 -- Stasis and schism, 1938-1940 -- 1941, Year of decision -- World War II -- After the war -- The CIO and its communists -- The Korean War -- The postwar CIO -- The final years of the late great CIO -- Merger and beyond.
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