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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... Federal Bureau of Investigation Farm Equipment Workers Fair Employment Practice Committee Food , Tobacco , and Allied Workers General Motors House Committee on Un - American Activities International Association of Machinists ...
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... federal government , workers staged innovative sit - down strikes and wrested contracts from some of the most bitter - end corporations . They created permanent industrial unions that boldly intruded into political and governmental ...
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Contents
Before the cio | 6 |
Founding the cio 19351936 | 22 |
Over the Top 1936193? | 42 |
The Diverse Arenas of the cio 19361938 | 66 |
Stasis and Schism 19381940 | 90 |
1941 Year of Decision | 111 |
World War II | 141 |
After the War | 212 |
The cio and Its Communists | 253 |
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Page vii - Thanks, also, to grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities...