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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Turn to the working class: The New Left, Black liberation, and the United States labor movement (1967--1981) Abstract: In the late 1960s and 1970s, thousands of young black, white, Asian, and Latino radicals from diverse class backgrounds concluded that a deep and long-lasting transformation of the nation's politics required them to concentrate their organizing efforts on worksites and within trade unions. They took jobs in steel mills, hospitals, auto plants, and truck barns. They rented rooms in working-class districts and immersed themselves in blue-collar community life. They organized workers from the salmon canneries in Alaska to the lumber mills of Mississippi and within unions as powerful as the United Autoworkers of America and as obscure as the United Glass and Ceramic Workers. They worked as union lawyers, organizers, and researchers, and they educated the public regarding strikes and around occupational health issues. Some of these radicals aimed to build labor support for the antiwar, African American, and women's liberation movements. Some sought to reform corrupt and ineffective trade unions. Still others harbored more ambitious dreams of a worker-led socialist revolution. |
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