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The Great Steel Strike And Its Lessons

Business & Money

Foster, William Z.

Management & Leadership

Da Capo Press

William Z. Foster, one of the earliest speakers and organizers with I.W.W. He was a leader of the Communist Party in America and writes from a first-hand knowledge of the role Industrial Unionism plays in our lives for workers rights. All forces of labor throughout the trade union movement should be united to reject the suspension order and preserve the unity and progress of the trade union movement. No man living today can speak with more authority on the industrial union question than Foster. He was a pioneer in the fight for the industrial form of organization since 1900. In the CarmenÕs Union in Chicago, among the packing-house workers and as leader of the Great 1919 Steel Strike and hundreds of labor struggles throughout the country during his years of courageous and militant organizing, Foster was always the leader in the industrial union fight. This classic reprint from 1936 is still just as valuable as it was then.

Industrial Unionism

History

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Trade unionist and Marxist politician William Z. Foster explains the organization and failure of the steel strike in 1919, an action which saw much of America's metal industry grind to a halt. The metal industries had, owing to great leaps in technological advancement, shed many jobs during the early 20th century. This precarious situation, plus the fact that unions had been curbed after a number of violent actions in the 1890s, led to the situation of laborers becoming unbearable. Shortly after Armistice Day marked the end of World War I, a surge of discontentment was accompanied by organization of labor and strike action. Although successful for a number of weeks, to the point where President Woodrow Wilson had to intervene and placate the workers on strike, the owners of the mills mounted an effective campaign which eroded public support for the strikers. Police brutality against striking steelworkers was recorded, with several such incidents being unprovoked.

The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons: The American Strike of 1919, its Causes and the Labor Unions Involved (Hardcover)

Economics

The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons: The American Strike of 1919, its Causes and the Labor Unions Involved

Writing during the Great Depression, William Z. Foster describes burning injustices in the economic orthodoxy, and predicts the gradual emergence of socialism in the United States. By the time the Depression struck in 1929, Foster was already a veteran campaigner and organizer of labor, having a prominent role in the great steel strike of 1919. At the time he published this book in 1932, Foster was leader of the United States Communist Party, and had developed a comprehensive policy platform based upon the Soviet Union. The USA's fraught economic situation at the time led many disillusioned and impoverished citizens to consider socialism and communism as an alternative. Foster begins by describing various aspects of decay in capitalist society, identifying its proclivity to indulge in war, its worsening cyclical economic crises, the impoverishment and neglect of vast numbers in the labor force, and so on.

Toward Soviet America: The Crises and Decline of Capitalism; the Impending Rise of Socialism in the United States

Americas

Writing during the Great Depression, William Z. Foster describes burning injustices in the economic orthodoxy, and predicts the gradual emergence of socialism in the United States. By the time the Depression struck in 1929, Foster was already a veteran campaigner and organizer of labor, having a prominent role in the great steel strike of 1919. At the time he published this book in 1932, Foster was leader of the United States Communist Party, and had developed a comprehensive policy platform based upon the Soviet Union. The USA's fraught economic situation at the time led many disillusioned and impoverished citizens to consider socialism and communism as an alternative. Foster begins by describing various aspects of decay in capitalist society, identifying its proclivity to indulge in war, its worsening cyclical economic crises, the impoverishment and neglect of vast numbers in the labor force, and so on.

Toward Soviet America: The Crises and Decline of Capitalism; the Impending Rise of Socialism in the United States (Hardcover)

This book remains the most competent treatment of the principles and organization, strategy, and tactics, of the trade union movement. Drawing upon his life-long experience as an outstanding labor leader, the author shows the role of a militant Left in the trade unions, without which significant progress has proved impossible. Foster selected and edited his writings for this volume and supplied an introduction and epilogue. It is now reprinted as he prepared it in 1947.The period covered in these writings runs back, roughly, half a century. While not a formal history of trade unionism during this time, the book nevertheless throws much light on the major developments in the trade union movement, It particularly highlights the long struggle of the left-wing and progressive forces for improved trade union organ­ization, policies, and leadership.The period in question was one of stormy and significant economic and political developments. American industry has expanded prodigiously and also has become highly monopolized. World capitalism has matured and entered into its final stage of imperialism. Two world wars, fascism, and endless class struggle have been expressions of this development of capitalism. The writings in this volume show how the American working class has reacted to this vital expansion and the decline of the world capitalist system.While there have been other compilations of writings on trade unionism, this is the first time that the policies, tactics, and role of the left wing during those past decades have been recorded in a single volume. Written in the midst of the struggle, the material assembled here is itself part of the living record of the American trade union movement.

American Trade Unionism (New World Paperback)

Intl Pub Co Inc

A Marxist-interpretation of Negro history based on the premise of their identity as Afro-Americans, deals with their slave past, racism and the liberation struggle

Negro People in American History

Intl Pub

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Pages from a Worker's Life

International Publishers

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The Great Steel Strike And Its Lessons

Industrial Unionism

The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons: The American Strike of 1919, its Causes and the Labor Unions Involved (Hardcover)

The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons: The American Strike of 1919, its Causes and the Labor Unions Involved

Toward Soviet America: The Crises and Decline of Capitalism; the Impending Rise of Socialism in the United States

Toward Soviet America: The Crises and Decline of Capitalism; the Impending Rise of Socialism in the United States (Hardcover)

American Trade Unionism (New World Paperback)

Negro People in American History

Negro People in American History

Pages from a Worker's Life