The Militant 70s Labor Movement You Never Heard of with Lane Windham

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Daniel Denvir

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🗓️ 24 January 2018

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Everyone agrees that the 1970s was the beginning of the end of capitalism as we had known it since the New Deal. But historian Lane Windham makes it clear that it wasn’t for a lack of worker struggle in her new book, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide. In case studies of union fights in department stores, shipyards, offices and textile mills, Windham explains that women and workers of color seized the civil rights victories of the 1960s to fight for economic rights in the 70s. Thank you to Verso and University of California Press. Check out The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn versobooks.com/books/2518-the-age-of-jihad and Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520295711 Support this podcast with $ at patreon.com/TheDig

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on patreon.com and by Verso Books, which has
0:07.0	loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you. One that you might like is
0:13.9	The Age of Jihad, Islamic State, and the Great War for the Middle East by Patrick Coburn.
0:20.2	The Age of Jihad charts the turmoil of today's Middle East
0:23.0	and the devastating role the West has played in the region from 2001 to the present.
0:28.5	Beginning with the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan,
0:31.6	Coburn explores the vast geographical struggle that is the Sunni-Shiya conflict,
0:36.5	a clash that shapes the war on tear, Western military
0:39.7	interventions, the evolution of insurgency, the civil wars in Yemen, Libya, and Syria,
0:45.9	the Arab Spring, the fall of regional dictators, and the rise of Islamic State.
0:51.8	As Coburn shows in a resting detail, Islamic State did not explode into existence
0:56.9	in Syria in the wake of the Arab Spring, as conventional wisdom would have it. The organization
1:03.1	gestated over several years in occupied Iraq, before growing to the point where it could threaten
1:08.4	the stability of the whole region.
1:15.6	Coburn was the first Western journalist to warn of the dangers posed by Islamic State.
1:24.3	His originality and breadth of vision make the Age of Jihad the most in-depth analysis of the regional crisis in the Middle East to date.
1:29.1	The Age of Jihad, Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East,
1:32.9	by Patrick Coburn. Out now from Verso Books.
1:45.5	Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.
1:50.4	My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.
1:55.2	There are a few questions for which answers are so urgently needed than that of why the American labor movement has been steadily destroyed since the 1970s.
2:02.0	Unions have delivered workers decent wages, access to health care, and a secure retirement,
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