> Until hearing Doug speak of the "working class
> surliness" of the 1970s on his radio show, I'd never
> actually thought of the 1970s as a period of working
> class militancy. At least ideologically. I think of
> the 1970s as a time of right-wing think tank
> propagation, reactionary money being put into
> foundations (the establishment of the Heritage
> Foundation in 1973, for ex.) to combat the uppity 60s
> [which many people actually say culturally ended in
> 1972, heh], culminating in the ascension of Ronnie
> himself at the end. Maybe there was working class
> militancy to some degree -- but how? Were there some
> big worker victories from the 1970s I'm in the dark
> about....? Didn't unionization rates actually start to
> drop big time by the late 70s?
Christian Parenti had an article in The Baffler that talked about labor militancy in the early 70s, lots of events I had no inkling of. Anybody know of a more thorough history?
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-- Andy