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James D. Rose,Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xi + 284 pp. $42.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2005

Cecelia Bucki
Cecelia Bucki
Affiliation:
Fairfield University
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Abstract

Back to the shop floor! This book is a welcome addition to the literature of American labor in the mid-twentieth century. Through meticulous analysis of steel workers at the workplace in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, James D. Rose explains the emergence and eventual victory of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC), a part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), in all its complexity. In doing so, he reveals the inadequacy of Lizabeth Cohen's culture of unity as well as Staughton Lynd's militant alternative unionism to explain the labor history of the 1930s. In addition, he reintroduces the idea that the federal government's role in industrial relations was crucial to the success of the CIO.

Type
Brief Report
Information
International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 68 , October 2005 , pp. 152 - 154
Copyright
© 2005 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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