| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Canada and the United States

James D. Rose. Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism. (The Working Class in American History.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 284. $42.50.

This study of the rise of unionism at the Duquesne Steel Works in Pennsylvania and the ultimate success of the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) in winning bargaining rights for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) in the 1930s challenges previous accounts both from historians and SWOC activists relating to the role of the leadership of company unions in shaping steel unionism in the New Deal and post-New Deal era. Author James D. Rose demonstrates that members of the Employee Representation Plan (ERP) at the Duquesne Works, a company union introduced to thwart the old Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers, had become both independent and militant and over a period of time developed a bargaining process with management that suited the interests of the skilled shop floor workers. The Fort Dukane Lodge of the Amalgamated represented the unskilled and more ethnically and racially diverse hourly workers at the mill. Ultimately, Rose contends, through a massive organizing campaign backed with the authority of the National Labor Relations Board, the SWOC brought together both the ERP and Amalgamated leadership to organize the skilled and unskilled rank and file at Duquesne. Thus, he argues, the roots of successful steel unionism there can be traced to both the ERP and the Amalgamated, despite historians' traditional dismissal of the former as a toady to management. . . .

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