The Paterson Strike Pageant - Davin, Eric Leif
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The Paterson Silk Strike of 1913 was a major struggle in the history of American labor. Over 25,000 Italian and Jewish workers shut down Paterson's 300 silk mills and dye houses for almost five months over the issue of workers' control of the rate of production. It was the biggest strike in Paterson's history. Workers overcame their differences in craft, nationality, and gender; and their democratic self-organization became a school in self-management. The workers invited the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to aid them. The IWW included a stress on the active role of workers in the…mehr

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The Paterson Silk Strike of 1913 was a major struggle in the history of American labor. Over 25,000 Italian and Jewish workers shut down Paterson's 300 silk mills and dye houses for almost five months over the issue of workers' control of the rate of production. It was the biggest strike in Paterson's history. Workers overcame their differences in craft, nationality, and gender; and their democratic self-organization became a school in self-management. The workers invited the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to aid them. The IWW included a stress on the active role of workers in the strike and this revolutionary vision of workers' control reached its fullest expression in the Paterson Strike Pageant performed by the workers themselves in Madison Square Garden. This was a revolutionary innovation in theater and labor struggles which remains an inspiration to labor and the Left.
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Eric Leif Davin is the author of numerous books, including Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914-1960 and Radicals in Power: The New Left Experience in Office, both available from Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield. In addition, with Staughton Lynd, he is the author of Picket Line and Ballot Box: The Forgotten Legacy of the Labor Party Movement, 1932-1936. His award-winning history of the 1930s Labor Party movement, "The Very Last Hurrah: The Defeat of the Labor Party Idea, 1934-36," was published in "We Are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s, edited by Staughton Lynd and available from the University of Illinois Press. He has also written three labor history novels, The Great Strike of 1877; The Paterson Strike Pageant: An IWW Novel of Bohemia and Insurgent Labor and Solidarity: An IWW Novel of the Steel City.