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title:Solidarity & Survival : An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century
author:Stromquist, Shelton.
publisher:University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin:0877454310
print isbn13:9780877454311
ebook isbn13:9781587292293
language:English
subjectLabor movement--Iowa--History--20th century, Labor unions--Iowa--History--20th century.
publication date:1993
lcc:HD8083.I8S77 1993eb
ddc:331.8/09777
subject:Labor movement--Iowa--History--20th century, Labor unions--Iowa--History--20th century.
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Solidarity & Survival
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Solidarity & Survival
An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century
Shelton Stromquist
University of Iowa Press Picture 4 Iowa City
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242
Copyright 1993 by the University of Iowa Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Design by Richard Hendel
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Printed on acid-free paper
FRONTISPIECE
Iowa CIO convention, Cedar Rapids, August 20-22, 1942. State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stromquist, Shelton, 1943
Solidarity and survival: an oral history of Iowa labor in the twentieth century / Shelton Stromquist.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87745-430-2, ISBN 0-87745-431-0 (paper)
1. Labor movement Iowa History
20th century. 2. Trade-unions Iowa
History 20th century. I. Title.
HD8083.18S77 1993
331.8'09777 dc20 93-13805
CIP
Rev.
97 96 95 94 93 C 5 4 3 2 1
97 96 95 94 93 P 5 4 3 2 1
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FOR
MARJORIE
WILSON
STROMQUIST,
who taught me
love and justice
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
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1. Origins and Traditions: The Making of an Iowa Labor Movement
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From Old World to New: Immigrant Origins of Iowa Workers
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Off the Farm: Rural Recruits for Iowa's Working Class
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Out of the Mines: Life in Iowa's Coal Camps
28
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In the Harvest Fields: Wobblies and the Lessons of Solidarity
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Union Traditions: The Power of Solidarity
42
2. Conditions of Work Before the Union
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The Chasm of Class
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"I Could Not Believe Such a Place Existed": Working Conditions Before the Union
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"It Was a Madhouse": Management Authority and Workers' Rights
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The Wolf at the Door: Unemployment and the Search for Work
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Nothing to Lose: Surviving Hard Times
73
3. Rebuilding the House of Labor in the 1930s
79
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Iowa Coal Miners and the Rebirth of Unionism
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