Next Shift with Gabriel Winant
The Dig
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The Black Steel Workers Struggle Was a Heroic Effort
The black freedom movement was directly confronting races labor market exclusion in both steel and unionized construction. They struggled persistently, but they str led for inclusion within the structure of the post war liberal order that was itself entering crisis. Black workers movements were thus confined by the same material limits as the liberal state itself,. requiring a healthy industrial economy generating jobs whose distribution could be contested.
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