This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com and by haymarket books which has loads of great left-wing titles

perfect for Dig listeners like you. One that you might like is the long deep

grudge a story of big capital radical labor and class war in the American

heartland by Tony Gilpin.

This rich history details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial behemoth International

Harvester and the Radical Farm Equipment Workers Union.

The long deep grudge makes clear that class warfare has been and remains integral to the American experience, providing up close and personal and long view perspectives from both sides of the battle lines.

Both Harvester and the FE are now gone, but this largely

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U.S. workers and provides alternative models from the past that can instruct

and inspire those engaged in radical working-class struggles today.

John Sales says of the book, A capitalist family dynasty, a radical union, and a revolution in how and

where work gets done.

Tony Gilpin's, the long deep gr Grudge is a detailed chronicle of one of the most active

battlefronts in our ever evolving class war.

The Long Deep Grudge, a story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland.

By Tony Gilpin, out now from Haymarket Books.

Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm

broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. When we think of the 20th century's big and horrible events, World War I,

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fights, we think of statesmen and business interests and

battlefields and covert ops. We look at major ideological systems like

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