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One book we think you'd like is Knocking on Labor's Door, Union Organizing in the 1970s and the roots of a new economic divide by

Lane Windham.

Union power has declined dramatically since the 1970s. Some have argued that the crisis took root when unions stopped reaching out to workers and workers turned away from unions.

But Lane Windham tells a different story, highlighting the often overlooked contributions of women, people of color, young workers, and Southerners.

In the 1970s, these workers combined the tools of unions and labor law with gains from the civil

rights and women's rights movements to fight back against bosses and corporations.

According to Nancy McClain, anyone who cares about work and workers in today's America

should read this book.

Overturning myths that are widely believed, Windham arouses both hope and outrage as she makes fresh sense of the

staggering rise of inequality since the 1970s.

Knocking on Labor's door by Lane Windham out now from UNC Press. Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel

Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Houston now confronts what will no doubt be a long, painful, and expensive recovery.

The storm is also, however, a warning to us all. We must take a hard look at the fact that climate

change is making these storms more powerful, more frequent, and more dangerous.

Trump might be fiddling while Paris Burns.

Apologies for that pun, it's the best I've got.

But what exactly have his predecessors accomplished?

It's not as though he invented doing little to nothing or worse about global warming as

the planet careens towards catastrophe.

My guest today is Kate Arinoff, a writing fellow at In These Times covering climate and American

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