In transit : the Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966 : with a new epilogue /

In transit : the Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966 : with a new epilogue /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Freeman, Joshua Benjamin.
Imprint:	Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2001.
Description:	xvi, 446 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Labor in crisis
Subject:	Transport Workers Union of America -- History. Transport Workers Union of America. Transport workers -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. Strikes and lockouts -- Transport workers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. Strikes and lockouts -- Transport workers. Transport workers -- Labor unions. New York (State) -- New York. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4640466

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966
ISBN:	156639922X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Originally published: New York : Oxford University, 1989. With new pref. and epilogue. "This new edition ... reprints, unchanged, the original text, with a new Epilogue that covers the period from 1966 to 2000"--P. ix. Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-429) and index.

Table of Contents:

Pt. I. "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake"
1. The Transit Industry
2. Transit Workers
Pt. II. "Did you see the light?"
3. The Founding of the Transport Workers Union
4. Organizing the IRT, 1933-1936
5. Organizing: 1936-1937
Pt. III. "A revolution must come on the dues installments plan"
6. The Fruits of Victory
7. Catholics and Communists: Union Politics, 1937-1941
Pt. IV. "As ... decent citizens of New York"
8. Public Transit and Transit Politics
9. Unification
Pt. V. "Events have abolished all debates"
10. Wartime
11. Breaking Out of New York
Pt. VI. "Fortune's blows when most struck home ..."
12. From the Grand Alliance to the Cold War
13. Fratricide
14. The New Order.