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Workers’ Struggles, Past and Present: A “Radical America” Reader: Workers’ Struggles, Past and Present: A “Radical America” Reader

Workers’ Struggles, Past and Present: A “Radical America” Reader
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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Foreword
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Part One. The Struggle for Control
    1. One. The Demand for Black Labor: Historical Notes on the Political Economy of Racism
    2. Two. Four Decades of Change: Black Workers in Southern Textiles, 1941–1981
    3. Three. The Stop Watch and the Wooden Shoe: Scientific Management and the Industrial Workers of the World
    4. Four. “The Clerking Sisterhood”: Rationalization and the Work Culture of Saleswomen in American Department Stores, 1890–1960
    5. Five. Sexual Harassment at the Workplace: Historical Notes
  9. Part Two. Organizing the Unorganized
    1. Six. Working-Class Self-Activity
    2. Seven. “Union Fever”: Organizing Among Clerical Workers, 1900–1930
    3. Eight. Organizing the Unemployed: The Early Years of the Great Depression, 1929–1933
    4. Nine. The Possibility of Radicalism in the Early 1930s: The Case of Steel
    5. Ten. A. Philip Randolph and the Foundations of Black American Socialism
    6. Eleven. Organizing Against Sexual Harassment
  10. Part Three. Militancy, Union Politics, and Workers’ Control
    1. Twelve. The Conflict in American Unions and the Resistance to Alternative Ideas from the Rank and File
    2. Thirteen. Defending the No-Strike Pledge: CIO Politics During World War II
    3. Fourteen. The League of Revolutionary Black Workers: An Assessment
    4. Fifteen. Beneath the Surface: The Life of a Factory
    5. Sixteen. Where Is the Teamster Rebellion Going?
    6. Seventeen. Holding the Line: Miners’ Militancy and the Strike of 1978
    7. Eighteen. Shop-Floor Politics at Fleetwood
    8. Nineteen. Tanning Leather, Tanning Hides: Health and Safety Struggles in a Leather Factory
    9. Twenty. Workers’ Control and the News: The Madison, Wisconsin, Press Connection
    10. Twenty-One. The Past and Future of Workers’ Control
  11. Contributors

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