Includes bibliographical references (p. 328-367) and indexes.
Contents
The Congress of Industrial Organizations : left, right, and center -- "Who gets the bird?" -- Insurgency, radicalism, and democracy -- Lived democracy : UAW Ford local 600 -- "Red company unions"? -- Rank-and-file democracy and the "class struggle in production" -- "Pin money" and "pink slips" -- The "big 3" and interracial solidarity -- The red and the black -- Conclusion: an American tragedy -- Epilogue: the "third labor federation" that never was.