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The Long Deep Grudge - A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland (Hardcover)
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The Long Deep Grudge - A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland (Hardcover)
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2020 Book of the Year * International Labor History Association
Honorable Mention * Philip Taft Labor History Prize This rich
history details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial
behemoth International Harvester and the uniquely radical Farm
Equipment Workers union. The Long Deep Grudge makes clear that
class warfare has been, and remains, integral to the American
experience, providing up-close-and-personal and long-view
perspectives from both sides of the battle lines. International
Harvester - and the McCormick family that largely controlled it -
garnered a reputation for bare-knuckled union-busting in the 1880s,
but in the 20th century also pioneered sophisticated
union-avoidance techniques that have since become standard
corporate practice. On the other side the militant Farm Equipment
Workers union, connected to the Communist Party, mounted a
vociferous challenge to the cooperative ethos that came to define
the American labor movement after World War II. This evocative
account, stretching back to the nineteenth century and carried
through to the present, reads like a novel. Biographical sketches
of McCormick family members, union officials and rank-and-file
workers are woven into the narrative, along with anarchists, jazz
musicians, Wall Street financiers, civil rights crusaders, and mob
lawyers. It touches on pivotal moments and movements as
wide-ranging as the Haymarket "riot," the Flint sit-down strikes,
the Memorial Day Massacre, the McCarthy-era anti-communist purges,
and America's late 20th-century industrial decline. Both Harvester
and the FE are now gone, but this largely forgotten clash helps
explain the crisis of yawning inequality now facing US workers, and
provides alternative models from the past that can instruct and
inspire those engaged in radical, working class struggles today.
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