Rank and File Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers.
Title:
Rank and File Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers.
Author:
Lynd, Alice.
ISBN:
9781400854578
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Publication Information:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (308 pages).
Series:
Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Contents:
Cover; Introduction; Christine Ellis, People Who Cannot Be Bought; John W. Anderson, How I Became Part of the Labor Movement; Stella Nowicki, Back of the Yards; George Patterson, Jesse Reese and John Sargent, Your Dog Don't Bark No More; Sylvia Woods, You Have to Fight for Freedom; Mario Manzardo, Liberi Cuori [Liberated Hearts]; Burr McCloskey, I Appeal the Ruling of the Chair; Nick Migas, How the International Took Over; Stan Weir, the Informal Work Group; George Sullivan, Working for Survival; Ken Tucker, It Got My Back Up; Wayne Kennedy, An Absolute Majority; Jordan Sims, Going for Broke.
Abstract:
""The strength of this book ... encompasses a broad view of history from the bottom up and deals not only with biographical background of the nonelite in labor but with insights into black, immigrant, and grassroots working-class history as well.""--Choice Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presentin.
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