The story of the explosive labor struggles and political battles in the 1930s that built the industrial unions. And how those unions became the vanguard of a mass social movement that began transforming US society.
“The rise of the CIO was ‘the most significant event in modern American history’ in that it marked the emergence of class struggle by American workers on a massive scale.… The story… is one of ‘historic achievement for the working class’ in forging a ‘class organization never equaled in size or surpassed in picket-line and shop militancy.’ ” —Book News