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THE TURBULENT YEARS A History of the American Worker 1933-1941 THE TURBULENT YEARS Irving Bernstein Introduction by Frances Fox Piven Haymarket Books Chicago, Illinois This edition published in 2010 by Haymarket Books First published in 1969 by Houghton Mifflin © 1969 Irving Bernstein Introduction© 2010 Frances Fox Piven Haymarket Books PO Box 180296 Chicago, IL 60618 773-583-7884 www.haymarketbooks.org [email protected] Trade distribution: In the U.S. through Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, www.cbsd.com In Canada, Publishers Group Canada, www.pgcbooks.ca In the UK, Turnaround Publisher Services, www.turnaround-uk.com In Australia, Palgrave Macmillan, www.palgravemacmillan.com.au All other countries, Publishers Group Worldwide, www.pgw.com Cover design by Adam Bohannon. Upper cover photo of an unemployed worker during the Depression. Lower cover photo of a scuffie with a store-keeper attempting to scab on a strike at the Jones and Laughlin Corporation steel plant in Pennslyvania, May 1937. Published with the generous support of Lannan Foundation and the Wallace Global Fund. ISBN 978-1-608460-64-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available. Printed in Canada Contents PREFACE ri INTRODUCTION BY FRANCES FOX PIVEN riii PROLOGUE: THE LONG, COLD WAIT 1 1. Prelude to Recovery 16 2. Upsurge of Organization 37 3. Stirrings Among the Unorganized 92 4. Unrest in Odd Places 126 5. An Emerging National Policy 172 6.Eruption 217 7. The Wagner Act 318 8. Rupture 352 9. Fratricide 399 10. Breakthrough in Steel 432 11. The Emergence of the UAW 499 12. The CIO Drives On 572 13. The Revolution in Labor Law 635 14. A House Divided 682 15. End of an Era 715 EPILOGUE: HOW FAR? 768 NOTES 799 ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS BOOK 843 INDEX 847 TO Clark Kerr Jon Kelley Wright Workers' Memorial Book Series On September 22, 2007, the Chrysler Corporation murdered Jon Kelley Wright. After working over twenty years at their Kokomo, Indiana, die-cast ing plant, the machine he operated crushed him to death because faulty safety equipment had been disabled instead of replaced. Kelley was an out spoken critic of management's dangerous practices and an advocate for safety on the job. Months before his death, he helped organize meetings where management said that replacing the safety equipment "wouldn't be cost effective." As the beneficiary on one of my uncle's modest life insurance policies, I endowed the Jon Kelley Wright Workers' Memorial Fund through the Cen ter for Economic Research and Social Change. This fund allows Haymarket Books to publish a series of books about the labor movement and struggles of working people to change the world. Thousands of people are killed on the job each year just in the United States. We invite anyone who has lost someone due to an unsafe workplace to memorialize their loved one through this book series. To read the me morials and find out more, please visit: http://WorkersMemorialFund.org. I hope that the Jon Kelley Wright Workers' Memorial Book Series will inspire others to dedicate their lives to the struggle for a world where safety on the job is more important than profits, and that it will help keep the mem ory of my beloved uncle alive. In solidarity, Derek Wright To contribute to this project, please send tax-deductible donations to the fund payable to "CERSC" (with "Workers' Memorial Fund" in the memo) to:CERSC, P.O. Box 258082, Chicago, IL 60625 The Turbulent Years is a book from the research program of the Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Los Angeles.
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