"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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Formato: | Recurso Eletrônico livro eletrônico |
Idioma: | inglês |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
[2018]
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Sumário:
- 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.