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The Union Makes Us Strong, Part 1

It Could Happen Here

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The Industrial Revolution in the United States

Capital started moving factories out of city centers where it's very easy to organize a factory, when everyone lives within walking distance. When they're done with their shift ot the factory, they're all at the bar outside,. You'll drive through rural indiana, and you'll pass like five factories, and they're surrounded by nothing but cornfields. It's because it's a lot harder to organize a auto workers when they all live 30 minute drive from each other and none of them hang out at the same bar any more. And that came out immediately after the was getting organized, after the assassination mart luther king and all the riots that were happening in the late sixties period.

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