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First published in 2000. This study examines how Progressive Labor, an antirevisionist offshoot of the Communist Party USA, attempted to revolutionize the labor front in New York City’s garment industry during the 1960s. An ideologically driven group, whose founders were loyal to Stalinism and attracted by Maoism, Progressive Labor set out in 1962 to become the vanguard of the American working class.

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Author:   Leigh David Benin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138977105

ISBN 10:   1138977101
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   04 February 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I Reinventing American Communism: An Overview of Progressive Labor in the 1960s and 1970s, Chapter 1. Antirevisionism in Action: The Origin of the Progressive Labor Party, 1956-1965, Chapter 2. Purifying the Communist Movement and Searching for Utopia: Progressive Labor in Theory, 1965-1982, Chapter 3. Reform, Revolution, and the Search for the Working Class: Progressive Labor in Practice, 1962-1982, P art II New Communists in an Old Anticommunist Union: Progressive Labor and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in the 1960s 69 Chapter 4. New Communists Challenge Old Socialists: Trespassing on “Dubinsky’s Plantation,” 1962-1966, Chapter 5. The Making of a Communist Trucker: The Political Apprenticeship of a Progressive Labor Colonizer in Garment Trucking, 1940-1966, Place: Progressive Labor, Garment Trucking and Local 32 , ILGWU, 1967-1970, Chapter 7. Anatomy of a Communist-Led Wildcat Strike: Progressive Labor, Figure Flattery and Local 32 , ILGWU, 1968, Chapter 8. Anatomy of an Anticommunist Purge: Progressive Labor, Figure Flattery, and Local 32, ILGWU, 1968-1969

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