Labor's Giant Step: The First Twenty Years of the CIO: 1936-55

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The rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the early 1930s transformed the labor movement in the United States and left an indelible imprint on the subsequent course and development of the trade unions.

Art Preis, an active participant, tells the story of the explosive labor struggles and political battles that built an industrial union mobement and changed U.S. society.