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Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend(Working Class in American History)

Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend(Working Class in American History)


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Winner of a Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards Won Honorable Mention for 2023 ILHA Book of the Year (International Labor History Association) The iconic leader of one of America's most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny's monumental biography tells the life story of the figure who built the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) into a labor powerhouse that still represents almost 30,000 workers. An Australian immigrant, Bridges worked the Pacific Coast docks. His militant unionism placed him at the center of the 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike and spurred him to expand his organizing activities to warehouse laborers and Hawaiian sugar and pineapple workers. Cherny examines the overall effectiveness of Bridges as a union leader and the decisions and traits that made him effective. Cherny also details the price paid by Bridges as the US government repeatedly prosecuted him for his left-wing politics. Drawing on personal interviews with Bridges and years of exhaustive research, Harry Bridges places an extraordinary individual and the ILWU within the epic history of twentieth-century labor radicalism.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Abbreviations From Australia to the San Francisco Docks, 1901-1922 San Francisco Longshoreman, 1922-1929 San Francisco Longshoremen Organize, 1929-May 9, 1934 The Big Strike, May 9 to July 4, 1934 The Big Strike: Bloody Thursday and After, July 5th to the End of 1934 Pursuing Maritime Unity, October 1934-January 1936 Founding the ILWU, 1936-1940 Harry Bridges and the Communist Party in the 1930s: Evidence from the Russian Archives Deport Bridges! 1934-1941 If at First You Don't Succeed: Deportation, 1940-1945 World War, Labor Peace, 1940-1945 Cold War, Labor War, 1945-1948 Try, Try, Again: Deportation and Expulsion, 1948-1953  The Last Deportation Trial and New Beginnings, 1953-1960 Transforming Longshoring: The M&Ms, 1960-1966 Labor Statesman? 1960-1971 The Longest Strike: Relations with PMA, 1966-1977 Living Legend, 1971-1990 Notes Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Robert W. Cherny is a professor emeritus of history at San Francisco State University. His many books include Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art

Review :
"In Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend, the culmination of thirty-five years of effort, Robert Cherny provides a majestic biography." --New York Labor History "Allows us to revisit a monumental twentieth-century life. Bridges the man may not be widely known, but his philosophy of inclusive, democratic unionism imbues much of today's most ambitious organizing campaigns, from Starbucks and Amazon to the teachers' unions in Chicago and Los Angeles." --New York Review of Books   "A detailed account of Bridges's life and achievements, using not only the extensive government files from his various prosecutions and the ILWU's voluminous archives but also Bridges's own papers, a number of interviews with him, and, crucially, CPUSA files in Russian archives. It is unlikely that a more complete story of the man will ever be told." --Commentary  


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  • ISBN-13: 9780252044748
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Illinois Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 504
  • Spine Width: 46 mm
  • Weight: 1080 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0252044746
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jan 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Working Class in American History
  • Sub Title: Labor Radical, Labor Legend
  • Width: 156 mm


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