The last great strike : Little Steel, the CIO, and the struggle for labor rights in New Deal America /
"In May 1937, seventy thousand workers walked off their jobs at four large steel companies known collectively as "Little Steel." The strikers sought to make the companies retreat from decades of antiunion repression, abide by the newly enacted federal labor law, and recognize their un...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Labor, Little Steel, and the New Deal
- Like a penitentiary : steel and the origins of the open shop
- They should honor us : work and conflict in the open shop era
- Sure, we have guns : the open shop in the Depression era
- I never gave that guy nothin' : the New Deal and the changing landscape of labor relations
- To banish fear : the campaign to organize steel
- The spirit of unrest : from stalemate to walkout
- In the name of the people : the incident on Memorial Day
- What had to be done : the struggle at the mill gates
- A change of heart : corporate power and New Deal strikebreaking
- Let's bust them up : last struggles and defeat
- A steel strike is not a picnic : the anatomy of failure
- Kind of a victory : New Deal labor law on trial
- Unreconciled : war, victory, and the legacies of defeat
- These things that mean so much to us.