Leftist Labor History natehousley
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- 歴史
This is a multi-part limited series looking at labor history in the United States from 1492 to present day. This series uses a Marxist lens to provide context for the relationship between labor and capital throughout time as well as the highlights of US labor organizing.
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Episode 1: American Slavery
The roots of American capitalism lie in forced labor. Beginning with Native American slavery in Spanish America, forced labor changed shape as British North America came to rely on enslaved people and a violent racial caste system. By the 1800s, one of the cruelest, most gruesome institutions in human history enriched the white Western world.
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Episode 2: Reconstruction
With chattel slavery abolished, workers and capital grapple over the new form of labor. Centers on an analysis of the free labor ideology.
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Episode 3: The Gilded Age
The free labor ideology that took hold during Reconstruction led to rampant inequality, workplace abuse and violence, and financial instability. In this era (1869--1886), workers began to organize and fight back.
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Episode 4: Labor Movement and Labor War
Between the years of 1886 and 1929, organized labor takes on a variety of forms. Craft unionism springs up in the American Federation of Labor, and radicals form the Industrial Workers of the World. Capital responds with both persuasion and violence.
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Episode 5: The New Deal
Labor movement since the 1880s led to the state recognizing the demands of workers. In this episode I discuss what workers gained and what they conceded to get a measure of protection from the government.
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Episode 6 pt. 1: Labor and the Civil Rights Movement
This episode examines the impact of the coalition between organized labor and the Civil Rights Movement. It also looks at farmworker organizing in California.