The Importance of Labor Intellectuals in the Industrial Revolution

I want to return to your ideas about the importance of labor intellectuals a little bit later, but ask another question about Labor's War at Home. You write that you sort of came around to having a more nuanced view on the bureaucratic processes that were created in the labor movement during this period. For these black workers, they used these bureaucratized parts of the, they used the contract as a way to fight racial inequality on the job. And so this is one of the things that helped lead you to a sort of more nuanced version of what was going on with these new bureaucratic structures.