"We Are All Leaders" : The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s

University of Illinois Press

\""We Are All Leaders\""The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s\nAuthor(s): Staughton Lynd, Rosemary Feurer, Janet Irons, Mark Naison, Peter Rachleff, Stan Weir\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252065477, 978-0252065477\nSynopsis\nContains the Bryant Spann Memorial Prize in Literature for 1997, an award-winning essay, \""The Very Last Hurrah\"" by Eric Leif Davin\n\n This collection of articles delves into the little-known community-based unionism of the 1930s. Worlds apart from bureaucratic business unions like the AFL-CIO, these organizations emerged from workers involved in many kinds of labor, from African American nutpickers in St. Louis to chemical and rubber workers in Akron, and from bootleg miners in Pennsylvania to tenant farmers in the Mississippi Delta.\n\nThe contributors draw on eyewitness interviews, first-person narratives, trade union documents, and other primary sources tor