Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Nutpickers' union, 1933-34 : crossing the boundaries of community and workplace / Rose Feurer -- Organizing "wall to wall" : the Independent Union of All Workers, 1933-37 / Peter Rachleff -- The challenge of national coordination : southern textile workers and the general textile strike of 1934 / Janet Irons -- The Southern Tenants' Farmers' Union and the CIO / Mark Naison -- The very last hurrah? : the defeat of the Labor Party idea, 1934-36 / Eric Leif Davin -- Paths of unionization : community, bureaucracy, and gender in the Minneapolis labor movement of the 1930s / Elizabeth Faue -- We stood our ground : anthracite miners and the expropriation of corporate property, 1930-41 / Michael Kozura -- "We make you this appeal in the name of every union man and woman in Barberton" : solidarity unionism in Barberton, Ohio, 1933-41 / John Borsos -- Unions with leaders who stay on the job : passing on the lessons of the West Coast longshoremen's and seamen's 1934 strike / Stan Wei.