Three hundred seventy-six thousand immigrant steelworkers struck despite employers’ divide-and-rule tactics

Evidence

In the autumn, at the height of the Red Scare, the great steel strike drew together 376,000 workers, largely from the unorganized masses of southern and eastern Europe, despite the companies’ best efforts to exploit nationality cleavages. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1347

Categorization

• XREF: Directly bears on solidarity-outlasting-threat question, and on whether primordial identity or manufactured conditions bind groups. — connects to: Employers deliberately mixed immigrant nationalities to prevent worker solidarity — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 672; European labor unions absorbed immigrant workers despite general racism — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3150; Employers broke coast-wide strikes through division, strikebreaking, and fomenting racism

Broader Connections

• Employers broke coast-wide strikes through division, strikebreaking, and fomenting racism #expands (0.85)
• European labor unions absorbed immigrant workers despite general racism #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3150