Zieger's analysis also contributes to current debates over labor law reform, the collective bargaining system, and the role of organized labor in a changing economy. /rebates/2fJohn-L-Lewis-Labor-Leader-Robert-H-Zieger2fbook2f3447853&. Stressing the efforts of industrial unionists such as Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray to forge potent instruments of political action, he assesses the CIO's vital role in shaping the postwar political and international order. Zieger details the ideological conflicts that racked the CIO even as its leaders strove to establish a labor presence at the heart of the U.S. Lewis Wetzel: Warfare Tactics on the Frontier By George Carroll.

Exploring themes of race and gender, Zieger combines the institutional history of the CIO with vivid depictions of working-class life in this critical period. Lewis in 1935 to its merger under Walter Reuther with the American Federation of Labor in 1955. Lewis, the spokesman for industrial unionism, swung his fist (or. Robert Zieger charts the rise of this industrial union movement, from the founding of the CIO by John L. Zieger traces the CIO history from the day at the 1935 AFL convention when John L. The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) encompassed the largest sustained surge of worker organization in American history.

John L. Lewis by Robert H. Zieger