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Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950

Rosemary Feurer
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780252073199
  • Weight: 513g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Oct 2006
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description
District 8 of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (UE) developed a style of unionism designed to confront corporate power but also act as a force for social transformation in their community and nation.

Rosemary Feurer examines the fierce battles between these Midwestern electrical workers and the bitterly anti-union electrical and metal industry, Exploring the role of radicals in local movement formation, Feurer reveals a "civic" unionism that could connect community and union concerns to build solidarity and contest the political economy. District 8's spirited unionism included plant occupations in St. Louis and Iowa; campaigns to democratize economic planning; and strategies for national bargaining that elected officials inevitably branded as part of a communist conspiracy. Though destroyed by reactionaries and an anticommunist backlash, District 8 molded a story that tells another side of the labor movement's formation in the 1930s and 1940s, and can inform current struggles against corporate power in the modern global economy.
About Rosemary Feurer
Rosemary Feurer is an associate professor of history at Northern Illinois University and coeditor of Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism.

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