The CIO, 1935-1955 Paperback edition by Robert H. 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. Sell one like this Description Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for John L. 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. TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY SERIES: JOHN L. 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. Zieger, Republicans and Labor, 1919-1929 (Lexington, KY., 1969) Zieger, American.

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, Robert Ziegers Republicans and Labor and his. Lewis in 1935 to its merger under Walter Reuther with the American Federation of Labor in 1955. and Union Politics in Alabama, in Zieger, ed., Organized Labor in the Twentieth. Robert Zieger charts the rise of this industrial union movement, from the founding of the CIO by 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