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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

Contents

Foreword

Paul Buhle

Introduction

by James Green

PART ONE. The Struggle for Control

CHAPTER ONE. The Demand for Black Labor: Historical Notes on the Political Economy of Racism

by Harold M. Baron

CHAPTER TWO. Four Decades of Change: Black Workers in Southern Textiles, 1941–1981

by Mary Frederickson

CHAPTER THREE. The Stop Watch and the Wooden Shoe: Scientific Management and the Industrial Workers of the World

by Mike Davis

CHAPTER FOUR. “The Clerking Sisterhood”: Rationalization and the Work Culture of Saleswomen in American Department Stores, 1890–1960

by Susan Porter Benson

CHAPTER FIVE. Sexual Harassment at the Workplace: Historical Notes

by Mary Bularzik

PART TWO. Organizing the Unorganized

CHAPTER SIX. Working-Class Self-Activity

by George Rawick

CHAPTER SEVEN. “Union Fever”: Organizing Among Clerical Workers, 1900–1930

by Roslyn L. Feldberg

CHAPTER EIGHT. Organizing the Unemployed: The Early Years of the Great Depression, 1929–1933

by Roy Rosenzweig

CHAPTER NINE. The Possibility of Radicalism in the Early 1930s: The Case of Steel

by Staughton Lynd

CHAPTER TEN. A. Philip Randolph and the Foundations of Black American Socialism

by Manning Marable

CHAPTER ELEVEN. Organizing Against Sexual Harassment

by the Alliance Against Sexual Coercion

PART THREE. Militancy, Union Politics, and Workers’ Control

CHAPTER TWELVE. The Conflict in American Unions and the Resistance to Alternative Ideas from the Rank and File

by Stan Weir

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Defending the No-Strike Pledge: CIO Politics During World War II

by Nelson Lichtenstein

CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The League of Revolutionary Black Workers: An Assessment

by Ernest Allen, Jr.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Beneath the Surface: The Life of a Factory

by Dorothy Fennell

CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Where Is the Teamster Rebellion Going?

by Staughton Lynd

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. Holding the Line: Miners’ Militancy and the Strike of 1978

by James Green

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. Shop-Floor Politics at Fleetwood

by John Lippert

CHAPTER NINETEEN. Tanning Leather, Tanning Hides: Health and Safety Struggles in a Leather Factory

by Andrew Rowland

CHAPTER TWENTY. Workers’ Control and the News: The Madison, Wisconsin, Press Connection

by Dave Wagner, interviewed by Paul Buhle

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. The Past and Future of Workers’ Control

by David Montgomery

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