Description: This book tells the story of how the Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers' struggle in the United States, captured the nation's 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 during the Great Depression.
Review Quotes: "Zumoff's work is an important addition to the history of both the American labor movement and the history of the American Left. Zumoff has combed monographs, manuscripts, and memoirs to develop a rich historical narrative of the 1926 Passaic Strike, its origins, its aftermath, and larger meaning."--Norman Markowitz "Professor of History, Rutgers University"