Workingclass giant : the life of William Z. Foster / by Arthur Zipser.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : International Publishers, 1981.Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 219 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 0717805905 :
- 0717805824 (pbk.) :
- 331.88/092 B 21
- HD 8073 .F6 Z5 1981
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | The Roscoe Proctor Collection | HD 8073 .F6 Z5 1981 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | NPML21090043 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197 - 205) and index.
1. A bit of background -- 2. The Philadelphia story -- 3. Work, on land and at sea -- 4. Homesteading and railroading -- 5. A syndicalist in the making -- 6. Foster's militant minority -- 7. Steel: organization and strike -- 8. From syndicalist to Communist -- 9. The TUEL: with the tide -- 10. The TUEL bucking the tide -- 11. Toward a labor party -- 12. The Trade Union Unity League -- 13. Facing the crisis -- 14. A crack in the pitcher -- 15. Fighting for peace and democracy -- 16. Fascism leads to war -- 17. War ends - cold war begins -- 18. Three score and ten plus -- 19. One final conflict.
"I was secretary and research assistant to William Z. Foster from 1951 to 1957. Being with Foster six days a week and observing him in all aspects of his work and in the bosom of his family qualified me, I suppose, to undertake the present book. But the principal sources for a William Z. Foster biography are his own autobiographical writings -- From Bryan to Stalin (1937), Pages from a Worker's Life (1939) and More Pages from a Worker's Life (a posthumous collection I edited in 1979)...." - from the author's preface.
From the library of Roscoe and Oletta Proctor.
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