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Author:
McMullen, David Lee
Title:
Strike! : the radical insurrections of Ellen Dawson / David Lee McMullen ; foreword by Richard Greenwald and Timothy J. Minchin.
Publisher:
University Press of Florida,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
xxvii, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Dawson, Ellen,--1900-.
Women textile workers--United States--Biography.
Women labor leaders--United States--Biography.
Strikes and lockouts--United States--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Working-class poverty -- Barrhead -- A spirit of cooperation -- Red Clydeside -- The Great War -- South to England -- On to America -- Passaic -- The Passaic textile strike of 1926 -- The strike drags on -- From worker to activist -- The 1928 New Bedford strike -- Worker against worker -- A new textile union -- Southern textile workers -- Workers ready to strike -- Propaganda war -- The strike turned violent -- Deportation and the Communist Party USA -- Dawson's final years -- My personal observations.
Series:
Working in the Americas
ISBN:
0813034868 (alk. paper)
9780813034867 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)437299328
LCCN:
2010001917
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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