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The Dig: Next Shift w/ Gabriel Winant

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The Myth of the Steel Workers

By the end of the 19 fifties, the union secured increases that made its members the very symbol of the post war promise to the us. Mandint became physically manifest in the growth of suburbs, the acquisition of consumer appliances and in the baby bill. The myth emerges from what is the true track record, right? And the ways had cashed out in rising wages and then in secondary things like home ownership and, you know, pensions and health benefits and so on.

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