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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: road to peace and freedom
    sub title: the International Workers Order and the struggle for economic justice and civil rights, 1930-1954
  name:
    name part: Zecker, Robert
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: History.
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 365 pages)
  abstract: The International Workers Order was an American consortium of ethnic mutual self-insurance societies that advocated for unemployment insurance, Social Security and vibrant industrial unions. This interracial leftist organization guaranteed the healthcare of its 180,000 white, black, Hispanic and Arabic working-class members. But what accounted for the popularity-and eventual notoriety-of this Order? Mining extensive primary sources, Robert Zecker gives voice to the workers in "A Road to Peace and Freedom." He describes the group's economic goals, commitment to racial justice, and activism, from lobbying to end segregation and lynching in America to defeating fascism abroad. Zecker also illustrates the panoply of entertainment, sports, and educational activities designed to cultivate the minds and bodies of members. However, the IWO was led by Communists, and the Order was targeted for red-baiting during the Cold War, subject to government surveillance, and ultimately "liquidated." Zecker explains how the dismantling of the IWO and the general suppression of left-wing dissenting views on economic egalitarianism and racial equality had deleterious effects for the entire country. Moreover, Zecker shows why the sobering lesson of the IWO remains prescient today.
  table of contents: Introduction -- A practical demonstration in democracy: the IWO -- A plan for plenty: the IWO tames capitalism -- We dare entertain thoughts not to the liking of present-day bigots: race, civil rights and the IWO -- A mandolin orchestra could attract a lot of attention: interracial fun -- Foreign policy and the IWO -- A fraternal order sentenced to death!: government suppression -- Conclusion.
  note: Robert M. Zecker.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: International Workers Order.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: International Workers Order.
  subject:
    topic: International labor activities
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Labor unions
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Working class
    topic: Societies, etc
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Working class
    geographic: United States
    topic: Societies, etc
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Labor movement
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Civil rights and socialism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Civil rights and socialism
  subject:
    topic: International labor activities
  subject:
    topic: Labor movement
  subject:
    topic: Labor unions
  subject:
    topic: Working class
    topic: Societies, etc
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
  classification: HD6475.A2 I867 2018eb
  classification: 331.88/6097309041
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Road to peace and freedom
    name:
      name part: Zecker, Robert, 1962-
    origin info:
      publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2018
    identifier: (DLC) 2017035619
    identifier: (OCoLC)985674332
  identifier: 9781439915172
  identifier: 1439915172
  identifier: 9781439915158
  identifier: 1439915156
  identifier: 9781439915165
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  record info:
    record content source: JSTOR
    record creation date: 180302
    record change date: 20260728172500.1
    record identifier: in00003943952
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng