sorry but this is–great jazz aside–the least interesting thing happening in any medium sized industrial city in America in the summer of 1934.
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Black Legion 1937
Nelson Lichtenstein, biographer of Walter Reuther and the great historian of the American autoworker on the "socio-cultural fissures" that the 1930s had opened up "within America's class structure":
"The CIO made shop-floor citizens of eastern European catholics, African-Americans, French-Canadians, and migratory Appalachians whose relationship to the old German- and Irish-American elite had been one of deference and subordination. Moreover, the CIO, with its leaven of radical Jews and anticlerical Catholics, its rationalizing, modernizing, and cosmopolitan outlook, threatened the lifetime of…
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24 City 2008
“The course of liberation, as we have seen, is thus not aimed at facilitating somnolence or generalizing the pleasurable, comfortable leisure of the contemporary upper classes. We do not propose to end up with the world of Dickens, or to warm ourselves at the fireplaces of Victorian England, at best. The goal, the eminently practical goal, and the basic motive of socialist ideology is this: to give to every man not just a job but his own distress, boredom, wretchedness,…
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