[lbo-talk] LBO's Union Experts, I Call Upon Ye!

[Marvin Gandall]

As I noted, foreign-born trade union leaders were "prominent", but they 
didn't dominate nor define the character of the US labour movement, as was 
initially suggested. The US unions arose out of the same domestic conditions 
and generally followed the same trajectory as labour movements in other 
countries at each historical juncture.

It was in the political arena that "American exceptionalism" was most 
apparent. European influence was strongest in the small American socialist 
movement, which rose alongside but was not identical to the much larger 
trade union movement, and which never took root in the US.

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> The point remains valid, though, that a lot of the militants who built US 
> unions were foregin born - such as the needle trades.
>
> Of course, there was Harry Bridges, who was Australian - and whom the US 
> spent decades trying to deport. SR
>
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> From: Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca>
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>
>> He was born in Lucas, Iowa. His parents had emigrated from Wales.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Lewis
>>
>> http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/lewis.cfm
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>> http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/lewis.cfm
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>> http://www.iowaaflcio.org/john_l__lewis.htm
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>> http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1625.html
>>
>> Etc.
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