Vernon L. Pedersen

The Communist Party on the American Waterfront (eBook, ePUB)

Revolution, Reform, and the Quest for Power

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the early years of the Great Depression, the Marine Workers Industrial Union (MWIU) was a colorful presence on the American Waterfront. In 1935, the MWIU seemed to vanish, closing its halls and stopping its publications. Vernon L. Pedersen convincingly demonstrates that the MWIU did not vanish-instead it was ordered by the Moscow-based Communist International to send its members into mainstream ALF unions and take over from the inside. Initiated by accident on the west coast and deliberately duplicated in the east, the Communists seized control of the west coast longshoremen's union, destroyed the International Seamen's Union, and created the Communist-dominated National Maritime Union.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498598026
• Artikelnr.: 58403653

Autorenporträt

Vernon L. Pedersen is a professor of history and the Head of the International Studies Department at the American University of Sharjah

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Radicals on the Waterfront
Chapter Two: The Birth of the Marine Workers Industrial Union
Chapter Three: Rivalries and Divisions
Chapter Four: A Hamburg Difficulty
Chapter Five: Eddy, Ralph and Jones
Chapter Six: The Baltimore Soviet
Chapter Seven: On the Embarcadero
Chapter Eight: The Lessons of the San Francisco General Strike
Chapter Nine: The End of the MWIU
Chapter Ten: The Strike of the SS California
Chapter Eleven: The Birth of the National Maritime Union