Product Description
Contemporary accounts of three significant strikes in the early history of the American labor union movement. "The Trial of a New Society" describes the successful strike against the silk mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts, by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW--the "Wobblies") in 1912. "The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons" describes the unsuccessful attempt by the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to organize the steel industry in 1919. And "The Great Sit-Down Strike" describes the successful strike by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1937 which unionized the General Motors plants in Michigan and established the United Auto Workers union.
