The Red Thread
Subtitle: The Passaic Textile Strike
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781978809895
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Illustrations; title: Abbreviations Used in Text; title: Introduction: The Passaic Textile Strike of 1926; title: 1 Passaic, New Jersey; title: 2 The Strike Begins; title: 3 The Communist Party and the Start of the Passaic Strike; title: 4 Bringing Passaic to the Labor Movement; title: 5 Enter the Politicians; title: 6 Repression and Class-Struggle Defense; title: 7 Building Relief and Solidarity; title: 8 Women, the Family, and the Passaic Strike; title: 9 The End of the Strike; title: 10 After the Strike; title: Acknowledgments; title: Abbreviations Used in Notes; title: Notes; title: Selected Bibliography; title: Index