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Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919

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By (author): Cal Winslow

On a grey winter morning in Seattle, in February 1919, 110 local unions shut down the entire city. Shut it down and took it over, rendering the authorities helpless. For five days, workers from all trades and sectorsstreetcar drivers, telephone operators, musicians, miners, loggers, shipyard workersfed the people, ensured that babies had milk, that the sick were cared for. They did this with without policeand they kept the peace themselves. This had never happened before in the United States and has not happened since. Those five days became known as the General Strike of Seattle. Chances are youve never heard of it. In Radical Seattle, Cal Winslow explains why. Winslow describes how Seattles General Strike was actually the high point in a long process of early twentieth century socialist and working-class organization, when everyday people built a viable political infrastructure that seemed, to governments and corporate bosses, radicaleven Bolshevik. Drawing from original research, Winslow depicts a process that, in struggle, fused the celebrated itinerants of the West with the workers of a modern industrial city. But this book is not only an account of the heady days of February 1919, it is also about the making of a class capable of launching one of Americas most gripping strikeswhat E.P. Thompson once referred to as the long tenacious revolutionary tradition of the common people. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Apr 2020
  • Publisher: Monthly Review PressU.S.
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781583678534

About Cal Winslow

CAL WINSLOW a long-time labour activist and educator is director of the Mendocino Institute and a retired fellow in environmental history at UC Berkeley. Among his books are Labor's Civil War in California and Rebel Rank and File. He edited E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left.

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