TY - BOOK AU - Zieger,Robert H. TI - The CIO, 1935-1955 SN - 080786644X AV - HD8055.C75 Z54 1995eb U1 - 331.88/33/09730904 20 PY - 1995/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) KW - History KW - Congress of Industrial Organizations (�Etats-Unis) KW - Histoire KW - fast KW - Congress of Industrial Organizations KW - gnd KW - Congress of industrial organizations (Etats-Unis) KW - ram KW - Labor unions KW - Political activity KW - United States KW - 20th century KW - Syndicats KW - �Etats-Unis KW - Activit�e politique KW - 20e si�ecle KW - Syndicalisme KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Labor KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Labor & Industrial Relations KW - Vakverenigingen KW - gtt KW - Business & Economics KW - hilcc KW - Labor & Workers' Economics KW - USA KW - swd KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=41200 ER -