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- Title
Strangers in the Brass City: The Role of Nativism in the 1920 Waterbury Strike.
- Authors
SULLIVAN, JR., WILLIAM F.
- Abstract
The article discusses nativism and the 1920 strike of immigrant brass workers in Waterbury, Connecticut. Anti-immigrant sentiment, associated in part with the anti-foreign feelings of World War I, is seen as playing an important role in the failure of labor union movements like the one in Waterbury. The strike is examined using records from the Scovill Manufacturing Company, one of the affected firms. Unions, and their ethnic makeup, discussed in the article include the New England Workers Association and local affiliates of the American Federation of Labor.
- Subjects
WATERBURY (Conn.); CONNECTICUT; UNITED States; STRIKES &; lockouts; STRIKES &; lockouts -- Metalworkers; NATIVISM; BRASS founders; SCOVILL Manufacturing Co.; UNITED States emigration &; immigration; LABOR movement; CONNECTICUT state history; 20TH century United States history; HISTORY
- Publication
Connecticut History, 2009, Vol 48, Issue 2, p176
- ISSN
0884-7177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/44370010