TY - BOOK ID - 138949072 TI - The Red Thread : The Passaic Textile Strike. PY - 2021 SN - 1978809913 PB - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Economics KW - Business & Economics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138949072 AB - "This book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The strikers were mainly immigrants and half were women. The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers struggle in the United States, captured the nations imagination and came to symbolize the struggle of workers throughout the country when the labor movement as a whole was in decline during the conservative, pro-business 1920s. Although the strike was defeated, many of the methods and tactics of the Passaic strike presaged the struggles for industrial unions a decade later in the Great Depression"-- ER -