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Philip S. Foner. Postwar Struggles, 1918-1920.

Biblioteca / 1980-1989

Philip S. Foner. History of the Labor Movement in the United States. Vol. 8: Postwar Struggles, 1918-1920.

Nueva York: International Publishers, 1988.

xii, 305 páginas.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

1 – THE SETTING I: The Struggle for Control

Causes of Labor Unrest

Promise and Reality

The Industrial Conference

Status of Women Workers

The New Unionists

The Plumb Plan

2 – THE SETTING II: Red Scare and Red Summer

Hysteria

“Deportation Deliriums”

Palmer Raids

Berger, Congress and the Red Scare

Sacco and Vanzetti

Unions and the Red Scare

“Red Summer”

The Elaine Massacre

Black Resistance

3 – THE U.S. LABOR MOVEMENT AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

The February Revolution

Triumph of the Bolsheviks

U.S. Intervention in Russia

The AFL and the New Soviet Regime

The ILGWU and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers

The Seattle Labor Council

“Hands Off Russia”

American Labor Alliance

4 – GENERAL STRIKE: Seattle and Winnipeg

Seattle Shipyards’ Strike

Steps Leading to a General Strike

The General Strike

End of the Strike

Background of the Winnipeg General Strike

The Strike Begins

“Bloody Saturday”

End of the Strike

5 – THE BOSTON TELEPHONE AND POLICE STRIKES

Grievances of the Telephone Operators

The Telephone Strike

End of the Strike

Background of the Boston Police Strike

Boston Policemen’s Union

The Strike Begins

“A City in Terror”

Role of Central Labor Union

End of Boston Police Strike

6 – STREETCAR STRIKES

Chicago and Denver

Knoxville

Kansas City

7 – STRIKES OF CLOTHING AND TEXTILE WORKERS

Men’s Clothing Workers

The Ladies’ Garment Workers

The Textile Workers

The Amalgamated TWU and the Lawrence Strike

The Amalgamated Textile Workers of America

8 – STRIKES of COAL MINERS and STEEL WORKERS

Background of the Miners’ Strike

Role of the Federal Government

Anti-Strike Injunction

Lewis Calls Off the Strike

Background of the Steel Strike

Role of Foster and Fitzpatrick

A National Committee

The Steel Organizing Drive

Fruitless Negotiations

The Steel Strike Begins

A Vicious Anti-Strike Offensive

The Strike in Gary

End of the Steel Strike

Foster Evaluates the Steel Strike

9 – THE OPEN SHOP DRIVE, 1919-1920

Open Shop Associations

The “American Plan”

Open Shop Propaganda

Open Shop Practices

The National Federation of Open Shop Associations

The Real Objective

The Struggle in Tampa

Results of the Open Shop Drive

10 – STRIKES AND BLACK-WHITE RELATIONSHIPS

The Stockyards Labor Council Campaign

The Chicago Race Riot

Organizing Efforts Continue

Black Labor and Unions

Bogalusa Solidarity

11 – The AFL and the BLACK WORKER, 1919-1920

The Messenger, NBA, and the IWW

The 1919 AFL Convention

A New Era for the Black Worker?

The 1920 AFL Convention

Another New Era for the Black Worker?

12 – The IWW in the POSTWAR PERIOD

The Sacramento Trial

The Wichita Trial

Centralia

The Trial

The Aftermath

Internal Dissension in the IWW

“Big Bill” Haywood

Political Prisoners

The IWW and the International Communist Movement

13 – THE SPLIT IN THE SOCIALIST PARTY and the FORMATION of the COMMUNIST PARTY

Nature and Ideology of the Left Wing

Victory of the Left Wing

The Purge

The Left-Wing Conference

The Purge Continues

The Chicago Socialist Party Convention

The C.L.P. and the C.P.

Communist Parties Forced Underground

A Unified Communist Party

14 – POLITICAL ACTION, 1918-1920

Forces for Independent Political Action

The Chicago Program

The Cook County Labor Party

The American Labor Party

The Committee of Forty-Eight

The Non-partisan League

A National Labor Party

The Farmer-Labor Party

Gompers and the Labor Party Movement

The Railroad Brotherhoods

The AFL, the RR Brotherhoods and the 1920 Election