The Rise of the Union Right — The Atlantic
Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It
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A humane government looking out for the powerless or less powerful was a necessary counter to business interests that thought primarily about the bottom line. In 1947, Jack did not think of himself as a New Deal liberal, but the housing fight was a first step in that direction. Additional steps were sometimes small, as the struggles over the power
... See moreI’m convinced unions played the most critical part in building the middle class in the past age of the automobile and mass production. Now we have to reinvent unions so that workers gain leverage in the current age of ubiquitous computing and networks. Designing policy to do so will be one of the most critical political challenges of the coming dec
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