Status
Available
Pages
135
Collection
Publication
Boston, Mass. : South End Press, c1993.
Description
Labor historian Peter Rachleff tells the heartbreaking but empowering story of P-9, a local union trying to resist management's drive for concessions while fending off a conservative national union leadership unwilling to support its own members. Includes a history of the radical International Union of All Workers from the 30s.
Subjects
Awards
Minnesota Book Awards (Finalist — Minnesota — 1994)
Language
Physical description
135 p.; 22 cm
ISBN
0896084507 / 9780896084506
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