After world were one, there is a noa crackdown on the left. Many people are deported and rested. Thereis really not any mandate to bargain with the union at this point. The labor movement is broken. And all of it t these new gigantic corporations, the movement of people from the countryside into the cities, the emergence of a financial system. Nobody knows what's going to happen to it. It's a kind of contested space. Everything is.
Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein on Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan.
Listen to Kim's Dig interview on Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics thedigradio.com/podcast/fear-city-with-kim-phillips-fein/
Listen to past Dig eps for context on Russia's invasion of Ukraine:
Tony Wood on Russia and Putin: thedigradio.com/podcast/russia-beyond-putin-with-tony-wood
Volodymyr Ishchenko on Ukraine: thedigradio.com/podcast/ukraine-w-volodymyr-ishchenko
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