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Arms, Country, and Class: The Philadelphia Militia and the Lower Sort during the American Revolution New edition
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In 1949 and 1950, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) expelled many left-wing unions, representing 750,000 workers, because they were supposedly Communist-dominated. This collection of previously unpublished essays explores the history of those eleven left-led unions. Some essays consider specific aspects of several unions--the Longshoremen, the United Electricians (UE), the Fur Workers, and the Food and Tobacco Workers--while others take up the impact of the federal government's and the Catholic church's anticommunism upon the unions as a whole.
This collection also addresses central domestic issues of twentieth-century America: race and government policy in the shaping of trade unionism; the impact of anticommunism and the cold war on race relations and working conditions; and the short- and long-range impact of the expulsions upon the labor movement. With groundbreaking essays that also concern the post-World War II period, Southern workers and workers in non-basic industries, this book will appeal to students of radicalism, race relations, anticommunism, and labor history.
- ISBN-10081351472X
- ISBN-13978-0813514727
- EditionNew edition
- PublisherRutgers University Press
- Publication dateDecember 1, 1989
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6 x 1 x 9 inches
- Print length392 pages
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Steve Rosswurm is an associate professor of history at Lake Forest College and the author of Arms, Country, and Class: The Philadelphia Militia and the "Lower Sort" During the American Revolution (Rutgers University Press).
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- Publisher : Rutgers University Press; New edition (December 1, 1989)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 392 pages
- ISBN-10 : 081351472X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0813514727
- Item Weight : 1.19 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,452,649 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,491 in Labor & Industrial Relations (Books)
- #1,790 in Labor & Industrial Economic Relations (Books)
- #3,126 in United States History (Books)
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