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Akron rubber workers' struggles, 1933-1936 - Jeremy Brecher

Jeremy Brecher's account of the struggles of rubber workers in Akron, Ohio, the centre of the American rubber industry. Growing disillusioned with the failure of the unions to improve their situation, the workers developed the sitdown strike. ....

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Workers, employers and unions in the US sitdown strike wave, 1933-1937

Jeremy Brecher's excellent history and analysis of the wave of sitdown strikes in US from 1933-1937 from their origins amongst Akron rubber workers to the great Flint sitdown strike and to their eventual co-optation by the CIO unions and subsequently in part the employers. ....

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Akron rubber workers' struggles, 1933-1936

Jeremy Brecher's account of the struggles of rubber workers in Akron, Ohio, the centre of the American rubber industry. Growing disillusioned with the failure of the unions to improve their situation, the workers developed the sitdown strike. ....

United States , Summit County , West Virginia , William Green , Jeremy Brecher , Ed Mcgrady , Ruth Mckenney , Irving Bernstein , Coleman Claherty , Louis Adamic , National Recovery Administration , United Rubber Council , Waitresses Union , Rubberworkers Union , American Federation Of Labor , Summit County Central Labor Council , Rubber Co , Order League , Industrial Valley , President Roosevelt , American Federation , General Tire ,