January’s free e-book is here! Check out Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend by Robert W. Cherny before the month is over!

The iconic leader of a small but powerful union, Harry Bridges was highly controversial within the twentieth-century labor movement. Robert Cherny’s monumental biography tells the life story of the figure whose 40-year leadership built the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) into a labor powerhouse that now represents some 30,000 workers. Cherny tells this history while examining Bridges’s effectiveness as a union leader and the decisions and traits that made him effective. But the ILWU head paid a familiar price for success. The U.S. government repeatedly prosecuted him for his communist leanings while the increasingly anti-left Congress of Industrial Organizations expelled the ILWU. Yet Bridges persevered to guide the union through controversies that included the racial integration of its ranks and mechanization and containerization on the docks. Based on personal interviews with Bridges and years of exhaustive research, Harry Bridges places an extraordinary individual and his union within the epic history of twentieth-century labor radicalism.

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