The Dig: The Militant '70s Labor Movement You Never Heard Of
Everyone agrees that the 1970s were the beginning of the end of capitalism as we had known it since the New Deal. But historian Lane Windham makes it clear that it wasn’t for a lack of worker struggle in her new book,
January 24, 2018
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January 24, 2018
The Dig: The Militant '70s Labor Movement You Never Heard Of
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The Dig: The Militant '70s Labor Movement You Never Heard Of
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Everyone agrees that the 1970s were the beginning of the end of capitalism as we had known it since the New Deal. But historian Lane Windham makes it clear that it wasn’t for a lack of worker struggle in her new book, <i>Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide</i>. In case studies of union fights in department stores, shipyards, offices, and textile mills, Windham explains that women and workers of color seized the civil rights victories of the 1960s to fight for economic rights in the '70s. Thank you to Verso and University of California Press. Check out <i>The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East </i>by Patrick Cockburn <a href="http://versobooks.com/books/2518-the-age-of-jihad" rel="nofollow">versobooks.com/books/2518-the-age-of-jihad</a> and <i>Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom</i> by Norman Finkelstein <a href="http://ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520295711" rel="nofollow">ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520295711</a> Support this podcast with $ at <a href="http://patreon.com/TheDig!" rel="nofollow">patreon.com/TheDig!</a>
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