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A Renegade Union : Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism /

Dedicated to organizing workers from diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, many of whom were considered "unorganizable" by other unions, the progressive New York City-based labor union District 65 counted among its 30,000 members retail clerks, office workers, warehouse worker...

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Autor principal: Phillips, Lisa Ann Wunderlich
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Community-based, "catch-all" organizing on New York's Lower East Side
  • Getting beyond racial, ethnic, religious, and skill-based divisions
  • "Like a scab over an infected sore" : full and fair employment during and after World War II
  • Attacked from the left and the right : community-organizing, civic unionism during the early years of the Cold War
  • A third Labor Federation? : The Distributive, Processing, and Office Workers of America (DPO)
  • Community organizing under the AFL-CIO umbrella.