Culture of misfortune
Subtitle: an interpretive history of textile unionism in the United States
By: Clete Daniel
Series: Cornell studies in industrial and labor relations -- no. 34
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Textile workers -- Labor unions -- United States; Labor unions -- United States
Description: "The failure of the Textile Workers Union of America to organize its jurisdiction has often been considered the CIO's most critical setback in establishing industrial unionism in the United States. The textile industry had more than 1,250,000 workers, and the massive organizing campaign the CIO launched in 1937 resulted in perhaps the longest, most bitter, and most significant labor-capital clash of the century.".

"In Culture of Misfortune, Clete Daniel integrates many primary sources, including extensive archival records and numerous oral interviews, into his examination of this conflict. He pays close attention to the internal political culture of the TWUA and how it was affected by the dislocation and transformation of the textile industry, the postwar assault on workers' rights, and the risks of activism in the face of the rampant anti-unionism of the South."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: A common interest; title: The promise of things to come; title: In praise of the new unionism; title: Trusting in the strength of others; title: Two steps forward, one step back; title: The spoils of war; title: "On our own again"; title: Enemies within; title: Self-inflicted wounds; title: Surviving the future; title: Where there's a will