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The CIO, 1935-1955 / Robert H. Zieger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (x, 491 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 080786644X
  • 9780807866443
Other title:
  • Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1935-1955
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: CIO, 1935-1955.DDC classification:
  • 331.88/33/09730904 20
LOC classification:
  • HD8055.C75 Z54 1995eb
Other classification:
  • 15.85
  • 85.63
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: the fragile juggernaut -- Before the CIO -- Founding the CIO, 1935-1936 -- Over the top, 1936-1937 -- The diverse arenas of the CIO, 1936-1938 -- Stasis and schism, 1938-1940 -- 1941, Year of decision -- World War II -- After the war -- The CIO and its communists -- The Korean War -- The postwar CIO -- The final years of the late great CIO -- Merger and beyond.
Summary: The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) encompassed the largest sustained surge of worker organization in American history. Robert Zieger charts the rise of this industrial union movement, from the founding of the CIO by John L. Lewis in 1935 to its merger under Walter Reuther with the American Federation of Labor in 1955. Exploring themes of race and gender, Zieger combines the institutional history of the CIO with vivid depictions of working-class life in this critical period. Zieger details the ideological conflicts that racked the CIO even as its leaders strove to establish a.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-476) and index.

Introduction: the fragile juggernaut -- Before the CIO -- Founding the CIO, 1935-1936 -- Over the top, 1936-1937 -- The diverse arenas of the CIO, 1936-1938 -- Stasis and schism, 1938-1940 -- 1941, Year of decision -- World War II -- After the war -- The CIO and its communists -- The Korean War -- The postwar CIO -- The final years of the late great CIO -- Merger and beyond.

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The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) encompassed the largest sustained surge of worker organization in American history. Robert Zieger charts the rise of this industrial union movement, from the founding of the CIO by John L. Lewis in 1935 to its merger under Walter Reuther with the American Federation of Labor in 1955. Exploring themes of race and gender, Zieger combines the institutional history of the CIO with vivid depictions of working-class life in this critical period. Zieger details the ideological conflicts that racked the CIO even as its leaders strove to establish a.

English.

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