The Rise & Fall of the Black Middle Class w/ Paul Prescod
July 18, 2022
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as posted by the channelJen Pan speaks with Paul Prescod on his latest Jacobin article which argues that good union jobs built America’s blue-collar black middle class. But the percentage of black workers in manufacturing has been halved since the 1970s, yielding poverty and precarity. We can’t achieve racial justice without a movement to win those jobs back.
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