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The Relationship Between the Industrial Workers of the World and the Communist Party Shortly After World War I
… Former IWW members, such as Bill Haywood, William Z. Foster, and James P. Cannon left the IWW and joined the Communist Party with hopes of furthering America's labor movement. To better understand what life was like for labor activists in the early twentieth-century one has to see the …
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Between two fires: race and the Chicago Federation of Labor, 1904-1922
This dissertation critically examines the failure of the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) to organize interracial unions during the World War I era. Specifically, it argues that progressive unionism was structurally limited and offered CFL leaders little ability to directly confront the racism of …