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Episode 264 - Labor Ascendant

Episode 264 - Labor Ascendant

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The next round of advancing worker power during the New Deal saw organized labor's allies in Congress successfully secure their right to organize. And a massive split in the labor movement would set the stage for a quick to materialize test of those new rights.

Bibliography for this episode:

  1. Dray, Philip There is Power in Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America Anchor Books 2010
  2. Kennedy, David M. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War 1929-1945 Oxford University Press 1999
  3. Hiltzik, Michael The New Deal: A Modern History Simon and Schuster 2011
  4. Schlesinger Jr, Arthur M. The Coming of the New Deal 1933-1935: The Age of Roosevelt Volume II First Mariner Books 2003
  5. Schlesinger Jr, Arthur M. The Politics of Upheaval 1935-1936: The Age of Roosevelt Volume III First Mariner Books 2003
  6. Katznelson, Ira Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time W.W. Norton and Company, Inc 2013
  7. Smith, Jason Scott A Concise History of the New Deal Cambridge University Press 2014
  8. Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 1932-1940 Harper-Perennial 1963

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