This book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger.
The strikers were mainly immigrants and half were women.
The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers' struggle in the United States, captured the nation's imagination and came to symbolize the struggle of workers throughout the country when the labor movement as a whole was in decline during the conservative, pro-business 1920s.
Although the strike was defeated, many of the methods and tactics of the Passaic strike presaged the struggles for industrial unions a decade later in the Great Depression.
About author(s): JACOB A.
ZUMOFF is the author of The Communist International and U.
Communism, 1919-1929 .
He is an assistant professor of history at New Jersey City University.
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Rutgers University Press The red thread: the passaic textile strike, paperback/jacob a. zumoff
