Next Shift with Gabriel Winant
The Dig
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The Role of the CIO in the New Deal Coalition
The role of ideological radicals, who had articulated the common interests of mass production workers with one another across lines of race and skill and ethenicity, was wiped out. By the late forties and early fifties, increasingly was unable to kind of play the role it had once played as a leading edge or sort of vanguard formation. The c i o meant something for millions of americans in the thirties because it was the leading organized force that was fighting for social security and child labor.
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