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Strike! : the radical insurrections of Ellen Dawson /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McMullen, David Lee
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2010]
Series:Working in the Americas.
Subjects:
Dawson, Ellen, > 1900-
Strikes and lockouts > United States > History.
Women labor leaders > United States > Biography.
Women textile workers > United States > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.