The CIO, 1935-1955The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) encompassed the largest sustained surge of worker organization in American history. Robert Zieger charts the rise of this industrial union movement, from the founding of the CIO by John L. Lewis in 1935 to it |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictZiegler (history, Univ. of Florida) has written a comprehensive history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) from its founding in 1935 as a break-away from the American Federation of ... Read full review
Contents
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1941 Year of Decision | 111 |
World War II | 141 |
After the War | 212 |
The Korean War | 294 |
The Postwar cio | 305 |
The Final Years of the Late Great cio | 333 |
Merger and Beyond | 357 |
Conclusion | 372 |
Notes | 379 |
Index | 477 |
The cio and Its Communists | 253 |
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Page 286 - No individual shall be eligible to serve either as an officer or as a member of the Executive Board who is a member of the Communist Party, any fascist organization, or other totalitarian movement, or who consistently pursues policies and activities directed toward the achievement of the program or the purposes of the Communist Party, any fascist organization, or other totalitarian movement, rather than the objectives and policies set forth in the constitution of the CIO.
Page 62 - Then suddenly, without apparent warning, there is a terrific roar of pistol shots, and men in the front ranks of the marchers go down like grass before a scythe.
Page 37 - that you intend doing what your statement implies, ie, to sit with the women, under an awning on the hilltop, while the steel workers in the valley struggle in the dust and agony of industrial...
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Page 146 - Police powers or disciplinary powers are vested in the union in direct proportion with the amount of responsibilities it assumes. The union assumes the responsibility to see that no stoppages of work occur, that all workers adhere to the contract machinery to settle grievances peacefully, and that wages and other vital cost factors are pegged generally for the life of the contract.
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Page 217 - I am convinced that if labor and management will approach each other, with the realization that they have a common goal, and with the determination to compose their differences in their own long range interest, it will not be long before we have put industrial strife behind us. Labor is the best customer that management has; and management is the source of labor's livelihood. Both are wholly dependent upon each other; and the country in turn is dependent on both of them.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The CIO, 1935-1955 |
| Author | Robert H. Zieger |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0807846309, 9780807846308 |
| Length | 491 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / 20th Century History / World Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations |
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