The New Labor Radicalism and New York City's Garment Industry
Subtitle: Progressive Labor Insurgents During the 1960s (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780815333852
Subjects: Industrial relations & safety; Manufacturing industries; Social history; Work & labour; c 1960 to c 1970; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; Politics/International Relations; History Of Labor; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; New York (State); New York; Labor Unions; History & Theory - Radical Thought; United States - 20th Century/60s; History / General; Progressive Labor Movement (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.); Labor; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Clothing workers; History; Labor unions and communism
First sentence: This chapter discusses Progressive Labor's formative period, from the late 1950s and early 1960s, when PL's future leaders were dissident members of the Communist Party USA, to the creation of the loosely organized Progressive Labor Movement in 1962, and finally to the formation in 1965 of the Progressive Labor Party, a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party organized along democratic-centralist lines.