When Steelworkers Defined Chicago

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(41 42 46 1)>A Fight for the American Dream</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(41 42 46 1)> Did you know that American steelworkers went from brutal 12-hour seven-day-a-week shifts where safety was nonexistent and wages were barely subsistence to becoming the </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(41 42 46 1)>highest-paid industrial workers in the world</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(41 42 46 1)> within fifty years?</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(41 42 46 1)>The Epicenters of Union Power</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(41 42 46 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(41 42 46 1)>When Steelworkers Defined Chicago</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(41 42 46 1)> tells the dynamic popular-style history of the United Steelworkers (USW) in the vital </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(41 42 46 1)>Chicago-Gary region</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(41 42 46 1)> a working-class powerhouse whose struggles and hard-won victories often </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(41 42 46 1)>led the entire U.S. industrial union movement</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(41 42 46 1)>.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(41 42 46 1)>More than a mere chronology of strikes and contracts this book is a gripping account of how ordinary men and women immigrants African Americans and community activists banded together to demand dignity democratize their unions and transform their country. From the smoky dangerous mills of early Chicago to the high-stakes political battles of the 20th century author Doug Nelson chronicles the generations of dedicated activists who fought not only their corporate bosses but also their own bureaucratic union leaders to hold them accountable.</span></p><p></p>