Steve Nelson American radical / Steve Nelson, James R. Barrett, Rob Ruck.
Material type: TextPublication details: Pittsburgh, PA. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1981.Description: xxi, 454 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 0822934418
- Steve Nelson, American radical [Cover title]
- 335.43/092/4 B 19
- HX 84 .N44 A37 1981
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | HX 84 .N44 A37 1981 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | NPML21040021 |
Includes illustrations of Steve Nelson in his personal and political life.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427 - 442) and index.
1. From Subocka to Pittsburgh -- 2. On the line -- 3. Chicago and the southern Illinois coalfields -- 4. The people of the Anthracite -- 5. Two years abroad: 1937 - 1938 -- 6. The struggle of the unemployed in Anthracite -- 7. Civil war in Spain: 1937 - 1938 -- 8. The west coast: 1939 - 1945 -- 9. On the national board, New York City: 1945 - 1948 -- 10. Pittsburgh: Under attack -- 11. In the hole -- 12. The crisis: 1956 - 1957 -- 13. Going on: 1957 - 1980.
"As the immigrant teenage son of a Croatian miller, Steve Nelson arrived in the United States after World War I and entered a world of chronic unemployment, low wages, dangerous work, and discrimination. Following the path taken by many fellow immigrant workers, he joined the Communist Party. He became a full-time organizer and ultimately a major leader, only to resign in 1957 after unsuccessful attempts to democratize the American party. This remarkable oral biography, recounted in collaboration with two historians, describes day-to-day life in the party and traces Nelson's career from his beginnings in the Pennsylvania coalfields to his secret work as party courier in the Far East; form the battlefields of Civil War Spain to the jails of Cold War Pittsburgh; and from a small group of Communist autoworkers in Detroit to the upper reaches of a party leadership in New York. It is the frank and analytical account of a leading American working-class activist." -- online
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