“A square deal?”: the Michigan CIO debates the no-strike pledge Selections from minutes of a 1943 Michigan CIO convention, debating the 'no-strike pledge' during…
“The man . . . died on my lap”: one women recalls the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937 The testimony of Lupe Marshall to a U.S. Senate committee on the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, a day…
Salt of the Earth This drama film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political point of view. Its plot centres on a long and difficult strike, based on the 1951 strike against the…
Reds riot at steel mill: 75 years later Mark R. Wolff on the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, in which police fired upon striking CIO workers.
Images from 1946 Rochester general strike Pictures from the 1946 Rochester, New York general strike, which happened in response to the mass firings of city workers attempting to organize…
Vulnerable Akron: the first great sit-down - Rose Pesotta An account by anarchist and union organizer Rose Pesotta of the 1936 Akron rubberworkers strike,…
A CIO organizer in Alabama, 1941 Reports from an organizer involved in efforts to organize a Goodyear plant in Alabama in 1941.
Toward a history of the CIO: a bibliographical report An essay by Robert H. Zieger on some of the various writings on the CIO up to 1985.
Left out: reds and America's industrial unions This study discusses the legacy of the Communist Party USA in the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) from the 1930s through the 1950s.
The Flint sit-down strike, 1936-1937 - Jeremy Brecher Jeremy Brecher's account of the great sit-down strike in the General Motors plants in Flint, 1936…
Akron rubber workers' struggles, 1933-1936 - Jeremy Brecher Jeremy Brecher's account of the struggles of rubber workers in Akron, Ohio, the centre of the…
Workers, employers and unions in the US sitdown strike wave, 1933-1937 - Jeremy Brecher Jeremy Brecher's excellent history and analysis of the wave of sitdown strikes in US from 1933-1937…
