Taming Free Speech w/ Laura Weinrib
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The History of the Industrial Workers Movement
When the ACLU was founded after World War I, it declared itself an adjunct of the radical labor movement. What did the labor movement in both its mainstream and radical currents look like in the 19 teens? And just more generally, what was the state of American industrial conflict? One of the major arguments in the book is that the modern Civil Liberties movement was born not out of World War II but rather out of class war.
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