The New Labor Radicalism and New York City's Garment Industry : Progressive Labor Insurgents During the 1960s (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor)

Examines how Progressive Labor (PL), an antirevisionist offshoot of the Community Party USA, attempted to revolutionize the labor front in New York City's garment industry during the 1960s. Discusses the origins of PL, the development of its antirevisionist theory, and its labor organizing practices during the 1960s and 1970s. Considers PL's organizing activities in New York City's industrial heartland, looking at the party's critique of the ILGWU, PL-led work stoppages in garment trucking, a PL-led wildcat strike, and the anticommunist purge which followed the strike. Author credentials are not given. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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