Taking Stock of Money in Politics: The Powell Memo Fifty Years Later
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The War in the Early Forties - A History of Labor and Capital
After the war ended in 19 forty five there was a dramatic reckoning then with the issue of labor and capital. There were enormous new demands for increased wages, better benefits like health insurance that had been taken off of the agenda during the war. So this sort of series of rolling strikes, mainly led by the u a w call, minated in 19 50 with the so called treaty of detroit. And once u a w got this agreement from g m, they could then pressure the other auto makers, such as ford and kreisler, who formedthe called big three to follow suit. This new kind of dispensation between capital and labor in detroit set the pace for other
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