1st Edition
Socialists, Communists, and the Struggle for the ILGWU Labor Politics and Power in the New York Garment Industry, 1900–1930
Introduction
1. The National Context: The USA in the Twenties
2. The Russian Jews
3. The Women’s Garment Industry
4. How Radicals Were Made: The Story of Elizabeth Hasanovitz
5. The ILGWU
6. The Political Left: Socialists and Communists
7. The Development of American Communism
8. The Great Marxist Divide, Part One
9. The Great Marxist Divide, Part Two
10. The Rise of the Communists in the ILGWU
11. Battle Lines Develop and Harden
12. The 1926 Cloakmakers’ Strike
Conclusion: A Closer Look
Biography
Jonathan Michaels teaches history at the University of Connecticut, Hartford Campus, and is the author of The Liberal Dilemma: The Pragmatic Tradition in the Age of McCarthyism and McCarthyism: The Realities, Delusions and Politics Behind the 1950s Red Scare.
