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The Seattle General Strike (Paperback, Centennial Edition)
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Discovery Miles 5 950
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"We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in
this country, a move which will lead-NO ONE KNOWS WHERE!" With
these words echoing throughout the city, on February 6, 1919,
65,000 Seattle workers began one of the most important general
strikes in US history. For six tense yet nonviolent days, the
Central Labor Council negotiated with federal and local authorities
on behalf of the shipyard workers whose grievances initiated the
citywide walkout. Meanwhile, strikers organized to provide
essential services such as delivering supplies to hospitals and
markets, as well as feeding thousands at union-run dining
facilities. Robert L. Friedheim's classic account of the dramatic
events of 1919, first published in 1964 and now enhanced with a new
introduction, afterword, and photo essay by James N. Gregory,
vividly details what happened and why. Overturning conventional
understandings of the American Federation of Labor as a
conservative labor organization devoted to pure and simple
unionism, Friedheim shows the influence of socialists and the IWW
in the city's labor movement. While Seattle's strike ended in
disappointment, it led to massive strikes across the country that
determined the direction of labor, capital, and government for
decades. The Seattle General Strike is an exciting portrait of a
Seattle long gone and of events that shaped the city's reputation
for left-leaning activism into the twenty-first century.
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