Organizing "wall-to-wall": the Independent Union of All Workers (1933-1937) - Peter Rachleff

A history by Peter Rachleff of the Independent Union of All Workers (IUAW), a militant, industrial union formed in the meat packing plants of Minnesota in the 1930s.

Originally appeared in Lynd, Staughton, ed. "We Are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s. Urbana: U of Illinois, 1996. Print.

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