The 1934 Minneapolis trucker’s strike

Labor historian Peter Rachleff on how a Midwest strike helped shape national labor law plus a preview of his talk on the 1886 takeover of the Richmond (VA) City Council by black and white union activists.  

On this week’s Labor History in Two: the birth of the original Rebel Girl, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.

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