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Workers of the World
Silver, Beverly J.
http:///www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/workers-of-the-world/Date Written: 2016-09-01 Publisher: Jacobin Year Published: 2016 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20041 Trade unionists in the 1920s didn't have much reason for optimism. Labour membership, which had shot upwards amid postwar unrest, crested and then plunged. A decade later, strikes were blocking production across the country, and union density was skyrocketing. After years of malaise in the labor movement, is a similar upsurge possible today? |