The Red Thread : : The Passaic Textile Strike / / Jacob A. Zumoff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Zumoff, Jacob A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 p.) :; 20 b-w illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Abbreviations Used in Text --; Introduction: The Passaic Textile Strike of 1926 --; 1 Passaic, New Jersey --; 2 The Strike Begins --; 3 The Communist Party and the Start of the Passaic Strike --; 4 Bringing Passaic to the Labor Movement --; 5 Enter the Politicians --; 6 Repression and Class-Struggle Defense --; 7 Building Relief and Solidarity --; 8 Women, the Family, and the Passaic Strike --; 9 The End of the Strike --; 10 After the Strike --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations Used in Notes --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781978809932; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754087; 9783110753851; 9783110739138
• DOI: 10.36019/9781978809932
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 during the conservative, pro-business 1920s. Although the strike was defeated, many of the methods and tactics of the Passaic strike presaged the struggles for industrial unions a decade later in the Great Depression.