Steve Nelson American radical / Steve Nelson, James R. Barrett, Rob Ruck.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Pittsburgh, PA. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1981.Description: xxi, 454 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0822934418
Other title:
  • Steve Nelson, American radical [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 335.43/092/4 B 19
LOC classification:
  • HX 84 .N44 A37 1981
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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BOOKS 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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