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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