The Seattle General Strike

Author : Robert L. Friedheim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295744618
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seattle General Strike written by Robert L. Friedheim and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: �We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in this country, a move which will lead�NO ONE KNOWS WHERE!� With these words echoing throughout the city, on February 6, 1919, 65,000 Seattle workers began one of the most important general strikes in US history. For six tense yet nonviolent days, the Central Labor Council negotiated with federal and local authorities on behalf of the shipyard workers whose grievances initiated the citywide walkout. Meanwhile, strikers organized to provide essential services such as delivering supplies to hospitals and markets, as well as feeding thousands at union-run dining facilities. Robert L. Friedheim�s classic account of the dramatic events of 1919, first published in 1964 and now enhanced with a new introduction, afterword, and photo essay by James N. Gregory, vividly details what happened and why. Overturning conventional understandings of the American Federation of Labor as a conservative labor organization devoted to pure and simple unionism, Friedheim shows the influence of socialists and the IWW in the city�s labor movement. While Seattle�s strike ended in disappointment, it led to massive strikes across the country that determined the direction of labor, capital, and government for decades. The Seattle General Strike is an exciting portrait of a Seattle long gone and of events that shaped the city�s reputation for left-leaning activism into the twenty-first century.

Author : Cal Winslow
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1583678522
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Seattle written by Cal Winslow and published by Monthly Review Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical analysis of the General Strike of 1919 in Seattle On a grey winter morning in Seattle, in February 1919, 110 local unions shut down the entire city. Shut it down and took it over, rendering the authorities helpless. For five days, workers from all trades and sectors – streetcar drivers, telephone operators, musicians, miners, loggers, shipyard workers – fed the people, ensured that babies had milk, that the sick were cared for. They did this with without police – and they kept the peace themselves. This had never happened before in the United States and has not happened since. Those five days became known as the General Strike of Seattle. Chances are you’ve never heard of it. In Radical Seattle, Cal Winslow explains why. Winslow describes how Seattle’s General Strike was actually the high point in a long process of early twentieth century socialist and working-class organization, when everyday people built a viable political infrastructure that seemed, to governments and corporate bosses, radical – even “Bolshevik.” Drawing from original research, Winslow depicts a process that, in struggle, fused the celebrated itinerants of the West with the workers of a modern industrial city. But this book is not only an account of the heady days of February 1919; it is also about the making of a class capable of launching one of America’s most gripping strikes – what E.P. Thompson once referred to as "the long tenacious revolutionary tradition of the common people." Reading this book might increase the chance that something like this could happen again – possibly in the place where you live.

Author : Seattle (Wash.). General Strike Committee, 1919. History Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seattle General Strike written by Seattle (Wash.). General Strike Committee, 1919. History Committee and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : General Strike Committee (Seattle, Wash.). History Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seattle General Strike written by General Strike Committee (Seattle, Wash.). History Committee and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harvey O'Connor
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1931859744
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolution in Seattle written by Harvey O'Connor and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seattle General Strike of 1919 was America's first citywide labor stoppage, a defiant example of workers' power in the aftermath of World War I. Told in gripping detail by one of the era's great labor journalists, Revolution in Seattle captures the dramatic dynamics of workers organizing strike committees to take control of their city from below. Republished on the tenth anniversary of the 1999 "Battle in Seattle" against the World Trade Organization, Harvey O'Connor's book offers lessons and inspiration to a new generation of rebels. Harvey O'Connor was a seminal labor journalist and historian, whose work exposed the greed of the depression-era "robber barons" and labor struggles nationwide.

Author : Seattle. General Strike Committee, 1919. History Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seattle General Strike written by Seattle. General Strike Committee, 1919. History Committee and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dana Frank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521467148
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purchasing Power written by Dana Frank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing consumer organizing tactics and the decline of the Seattle movement as a case study of the U.S. labor movement, this work traces its transformation after the famous Seattle General Strike of 1919, paying special attention to the gender dynamics of labor's consumer campaigns.

Author : Victoria Johnson
Publisher : Samuel and Althea Stroum Books
ISBN 13 : 9780295997131
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Many Machine Guns Does It Take to Cook One Meal? written by Victoria Johnson and published by Samuel and Althea Stroum Books. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Many Machine Guns Does It Take to Cook One Meal? explores the cultural forces that shaped two pivotal events affecting the entire West Coast: the 1919 Seattle General Strike and the 1934 San Francisco General Strike. In contrast to traditional approaches that downplay culture or focus on the role of socialists or communists, Victoria Johnson shows how strike participants were inspired by distinctly American notions of workplace democracy that can be traced back to the political philosophies of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine. Johnson examines the powerful stories and practices from our own egalitarian traditions that resonated with these workers and that have too often been dismissed by observers of the American labor movement. Ultimately, she argues that organized labor's failure to draw on these traditions in later decades contributed to its decreasing capacity to mobilize workers as well as to the increasing conservatism of American political culture. This book will appeal to scholars of western and labor history, sociology, and political science, as well as to anyone interested in the intersection of labor and culture.

Author : David T. Burbank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reign of the Rabble written by David T. Burbank and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mike Quin
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016422468
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Strike written by Mike Quin and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.