{"product_id":"workingclass-giant","title":"Workingclass Giant","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWorkingclass Giant\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eArthur Zipser\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0717805824\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eIntl Pub Co Inc\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e220\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Z. Foster was one the most recognized and respected labor leaders and Communists in\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eU.S. history. He ran for president on the Communist Party USA ticket in 1924, 1928, and 1932.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough an early member of the Industrial Workers of the World, Foster came into national prominence as an American Federation of Labor organizer and leader of the bloody steel strike of 1919.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFosters Trade Union Educational League and Trade Union Unity League helped to lay the organizational groundwork for the birth and consolidation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1936, ushering in the greatest upsurge of worker organizing in U.S. history. In 1921, Foster joined the Communist Part, USA. He remained a committed Communist the rest of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1948, Foster was among the CPUSA's leaders indicted for teaching and advocating Marxism Leninism though, due to his health, he did not serve time in prison. In 1957, he was elected CPUSA chairman emeritus at the party's national convention in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFoster's life and legacy continues to inspire a new generation of workers. First published in 1981, this new edition the classic biography of Foster by Arthur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZipser includes a Foreword by trade union activist and organizer, Chris Townsend. No stranger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eto union organizing, Townsend spent the last 40 years on the national staff of the United Electrical Workers Union and the Amalgamated Transit Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Intl Pub Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Workingclass Giant | Arthur Zipser | Paperback | 0717805824 | Used: Very Good | Politics 1772885","offer_id":50752150438146,"sku":"1772885","price":23.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/716N0jCtj4L.jpg?v=1792002764","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/workingclass-giant","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}