A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism
Author:   Lisa Phillips
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
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9780252037320


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   12 December 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Lisa Phillips
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780252037320


ISBN 10:   0252037324
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   12 December 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments   ix List of Acronyms   xiii Introduction   1 1. Community-Based, ""Catch-All"" Organizing on New York's Lower East Side   15 2. Getting beyond Racial, Ethnic, Religious, and Skill-Based Divisions   42 3. ""Like a Scab over an Infected Sore"": Full and Fair Employment during and after World War II   66 4. Attached from the Right and the Left: Community-Organizing, Civic Unionism during the Early Years of the Cold War   91 5. A Third Labor Federation? The Distributive, Processing, and Office Workers of America (DPO)   114 6. Community Organizing under the AFL-CIO Umbrella   137 Conclusion   167 Abbreviated Chronology   187 Notes   189 Index   221  "

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"""A Renegade Union deepens our understanding of how left-led unions in the mid-twentieth century distinguished themselves from other unions, and helps us see the possibilities for social movement unionism. Lisa Phillips's well-told story of District 65 will be welcomed by labor historians, civil rights scholars, labor activists, and interested general readers."" Rosemary Feurer, author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950"


""A Renegade Union deepens our understanding of how left-led unions in the mid-twentieth century distinguished themselves from other unions, and helps us see the possibilities for social movement unionism. Lisa Phillips's well-told story of District 65 will be welcomed by labor historians, civil rights scholars, labor activists, and interested general readers."" Rosemary Feurer, author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950


A Renegade Union deepens our understanding of how left-led unions in the mid-twentieth century distinguished themselves from other unions, and helps us see the possibilities for social movement unionism. Lisa Phillips's well-told story of District 65 will be welcomed by labor historians, civil rights scholars, labor activists, and interested general readers. Rosemary Feurer, author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950


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Lisa Phillips is an assistant professor of history at Indiana State University.

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