Them and us: struggles of a rank-and-file union / by James J. Matles and James Higgins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1974]Description: viii, 311 pages ' 22 cmISBN:
  • 0139130799
  • 0139130535 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.88/12/130973
LOC classification:
  • HD 6515 .E3 M33 1974
Contents:
Summary: "Every industrial worker who has ever walked a picket line will understand this book. People who are interested in those who have, or who sit on the other side of the bargaining table, had better read Them and Us: Struggles of rank-and-file union." -- cover.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks HD 6515 .E3 M33 1974 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML18090011

Part One. Organizing - 1: Roots of rank-and-file unionism - 2: Depression days in the shops - 3: Pounding on AFL doors - 4: The UE's baptism of fire - 5: "Miracles" of organization - 6" Signing up Swopes GE - 7: Company time in Iowa - 8: Redbaiters, spies, union-busters - 9: Winning Westinghouse and GM - 10: Millions walk the picket lines. -- Part Two. Surviving - 11: Cold War on the CIO - 12: "Injury to One...concern of all" - 13: Organized workers split asunder - 14: McCarthyism and Humphreyism - 15: The ninety thousand. -- Part Three. Fighting for unity - 16: GE's take-it-or-leave-it - 17: The great 1969-70 strike - 18: Seeds of rank-and-file rebellion.

"Every industrial worker who has ever walked a picket line will understand this book. People who are interested in those who have, or who sit on the other side of the bargaining table, had better read Them and Us: Struggles of rank-and-file union." -- cover.

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