Reminiscences of James Barron Carey, 1958

Biographical Note

Labor executive

Scope and Contents

Early experiences in the Philco plant in Philadelphia; formative years of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers; Congress of Industrial Organizations; labor and the New Deal; Communist Party and the labor movement; Secretary of the Congress of Industrial Organizations; formation of World Federation of Trade Unions; London and San Francisco labor conferences, 1945; merger of American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

Subjects

• AFL-CIO.
• Carey, James B.--Interviews.
• Communist Party of the United States of America.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• Labor unions and communism.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Shaughnessy, Donald F., interviewer.
• United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.
• United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
• World Federation of Trade Unions.

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