This rich hiStory details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial behemoth International Harvester and the uniquely Radical Farm Equipment Workers union.
She is a co-author of On Strike for Respect: The Clerical and Technical Workers\' Strike at Yale University, and is the recipient of the 2018 Debra Bernhardt Award for Labor Journalism..
About the Author Toni Gilpin is a Labor historian, activist and writer.
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.
It touches on pivotal moments and movements as wide-ranging as the Haymarket "riot," the Flint sit-down strikes, the Memorial Day Massacre, the Mc Carthy-era anti-communist purges, and America\'s late 20th-century industrial decline.
Biographical sketches of Mc Cormick 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.
This evocative account, stretching back to the nineteenth century and carried through to the present, reads like a novel.
On the other 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.
International Harvester - and the Mc Cormick 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.
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.
This rich hiStory details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial behemoth International Harvester and the uniquely Radical Farm Equipment Workers union
