The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781978809901)

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.

Author: Jacob A. Zumoff
ISBN-10: 1978809905
ISBN-13: 9781978809901
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/16/2021
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover