"A Road to Peace and Freedom" : The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930-1954 /

The International Workers Order was an American consortium of ethnic mutual self-insurance societies that advocated for unemployment insurance, Social Security and vibrant industrial unions. This interracial leftist organization guaranteed the healthcare of its 180,000 white, black, Hispanic and Ara...

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Zecker, Robert, 1962- (Egilea)
Formatua: Baliabide elektronikoa eBook
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Argitaratua: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2018]
Saila:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Etiketarik gabe, Izan zaitez lehena erregistro honi etiketa jartzen!
Aurkibidea:
  • Introduction
  • A practical demonstration in democracy: the IWO
  • A plan for plenty: the IWO tames capitalism
  • We dare entertain thoughts not to the liking of present-day bigots: race, civil rights and the IWO
  • A mandolin orchestra could attract a lot of attention: interracial fun
  • Foreign policy and the IWO
  • A fraternal order sentenced to death!: government suppression
  • Conclusion.