Strike! : The Radical Insurrections of Ellen Dawson

The first biography of Ellen Dawson (1900-1967), a Scottish woman who participated in three of the largest and most dramatic textile strikes in U.S. history, where she helped organize the National Textile Workers Union and became the first woman elected to a national leadership position in an American textile union.

It provides an unrivaled perspective of early American communists during the 1920s and 1930s, one that ignores the distortions so commonly applied during the Cold War.