Strike!
Subtitle: the radical insurrections of Ellen Dawson
By: David Lee McMullen ; foreword by Richard Greenwald and Timothy Minchin.
Series: Working in the Americas
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813034867
Subjects: Dawson, Ellen, -- b. 1900; Women textile workers -- United States -- Biography; Women labor leaders -- United States -- Biography; Strikes and lockouts -- United States -- History
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Working-class poverty; title: Barrhead; title: A spirit of cooperation; title: Red Clydeside; title: The Great War; title: South to England; title: On to America; title: Passaic; title: The Passaic textile strike of 1926; title: The strike drags on; title: From worker to activist; title: The 1928 New Bedford strike; title: Worker against worker; title: A new textile union; title: Southern textile workers; title: Workers ready to strike; title: Propaganda war; title: The strike turned violent; title: Deportation and the Communist Party USA; title: Dawson's final years; title: My personal observations.