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How labor unions create worker power (w/ Margaret Levi)

How to Be a Better Human

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The History of Labor Unions

The craft unions had their origins in the medieval guilds. The next stage was the industrial unions, which really organized all of the workers in a particular industry. And those were very large scale and therefore extremely led to some of the most militant actions that we think about in the history of unionization.

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