Strike! : the Radical Insurrections of Ellen Dawson /

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This is the first biography of Ellen Dawson (1900-1967), a Scottish woman who participated in three of the largest and most dramatic textile strikes in U.S. history--Passaic, New Jersey; New Bedford, Massachusetts; and Gastonia, North Carolina. She helped organize the National Textile Workers Union...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McMullen, David Lee
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Florida : University Press of Florida, 2010.
Colección:Working in the Americas.
Temas:
Dawson, Ellen, > 1900-
Women textile workers > United States > Biography.
Women labor leaders > United States > Biography.
Strikes and lockouts > United States > History.
Travailleuses du textile > États-Unis > Biographies.
Dirigeantes syndicales > États-Unis > Biographies.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
Strikes and lockouts.
Women labor leaders.
Women textile workers.
United States.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. THE MAKING OF A RADICAL; 1. Working-Class Poverty; 2. Barrhead; 3. A Spirit of Cooperation; 4. Red Clydeside; 5. The Great War; 6. South to England; 7. On to America; 8. Passaic; PART II. THE WORLD OF A RADICAL; 9. The Passaic Textile Strike of 1926; 10. The Strike Drags On; 11. From Worker to Activist; 12. The 1928 New Bedford Strike; 13. Worker Against Worker; 14. A New Textile Union; 15. Southern Textile Workers; 16. Workers Ready to Strike; 17. Propaganda War; 18. The Strike Turned Violent.
  • 19. Deportation and the Communist Party USA20. Dawson's Final Years; 21. My Personal Observations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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