The Seattle General Strike
Title | The Seattle General Strike PDF eBook |
Author | Seattle (Wash.). General Strike Committee, 1919. History Committee |
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Pages | 82 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | General Strike, Seattle, Wash., 1919 |
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The Seattle General Strike
Title | The Seattle General Strike PDF eBook |
Author | Seattle. General Strike Committee, 1919. History Committee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 73 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | General Strike, Seattle, Wash., 1919 |
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The Seattle General Strike
Title | The Seattle General Strike PDF eBook |
Author | General Strike Committee (Seattle, Wash.). History Committee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | General Strike, Seattle, Wash., 1919 |
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ˆThe ‰Seattle General Strike,an Account of what Happened in Seattle, and Especially in the Seattle Labor Movement During the General Strike, February 6 to 11, 1919
Title | ˆThe ‰Seattle General Strike,an Account of what Happened in Seattle, and Especially in the Seattle Labor Movement During the General Strike, February 6 to 11, 1919 PDF eBook |
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Publisher | |
Pages | 75 |
Release | 1999 |
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The Seattle General Strike
Title | The Seattle General Strike PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 73 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | General Strike, Seattle, Wash., 1919 |
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The Seattle General Strike
Title | The Seattle General Strike PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Friedheim |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2018-11-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0295744618 |
“We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in this country, a move which will lead—NO ONE KNOWS WHERE!” With these words echoing throughout the city, on February 6, 1919, 65,000 Seattle workers began one of the most important general strikes in US history. For six tense yet nonviolent days, the Central Labor Council negotiated with federal and local authorities on behalf of the shipyard workers whose grievances initiated the citywide walkout. Meanwhile, strikers organized to provide essential services such as delivering supplies to hospitals and markets, as well as feeding thousands at union-run dining facilities. Robert L. Friedheim’s classic account of the dramatic events of 1919, first published in 1964 and now enhanced with a new introduction, afterword, and photo essay by James N. Gregory, vividly details what happened and why. Overturning conventional understandings of the American Federation of Labor as a conservative labor organization devoted to pure and simple unionism, Friedheim shows the influence of socialists and the IWW in the city’s labor movement. While Seattle’s strike ended in disappointment, it led to massive strikes across the country that determined the direction of labor, capital, and government for decades. The Seattle General Strike is an exciting portrait of a Seattle long gone and of events that shaped the city’s reputation for left-leaning activism into the twenty-first century.
Radical Seattle
Title | Radical Seattle PDF eBook |
Author | Cal Winslow |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2020-02-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1583678549 |
A historical analysis of the General Strike of 1919 in Seattle On a grey winter morning in Seattle, in February 1919, 110 local unions shut down the entire city. Shut it down and took it over, rendering the authorities helpless. For five days, workers from all trades and sectors – streetcar drivers, telephone operators, musicians, miners, loggers, shipyard workers – fed the people, ensured that babies had milk, that the sick were cared for. They did this with without police – and they kept the peace themselves. This had never happened before in the United States and has not happened since. Those five days became known as the General Strike of Seattle. Chances are you’ve never heard of it. In Radical Seattle, Cal Winslow explains why. Winslow describes how Seattle’s General Strike was actually the high point in a long process of early twentieth century socialist and working-class organization, when everyday people built a viable political infrastructure that seemed, to governments and corporate bosses, radical – even “Bolshevik.” Drawing from original research, Winslow depicts a process that, in struggle, fused the celebrated itinerants of the West with the workers of a modern industrial city. But this book is not only an account of the heady days of February 1919; it is also about the making of a class capable of launching one of America’s most gripping strikes – what E.P. Thompson once referred to as "the long tenacious revolutionary tradition of the common people." Reading this book might increase the chance that something like this could happen again – possibly in the place where you live.