Both candidates favor repealing much of the law that slammed the brakes on unions’ growth.
Rich Yeselson
Rich Yeselson, a writer who lives in Washington, D.C., is writing a book about the Taft-Hartley Act.
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Harnessing the Power of the New Working Class
If the new proletariat starts identifying as a class, it could transform politics.Â
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Labor at a Crossroads: Will Diversity Foster a New Solidarity and Save the Movement?
The determination to represent the entire working class is the best chance labor has had in over 40 years to put the “labor question” before the nation again.
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James Madison’s Worst Nightmare
Today’s Republicans have become the very kind of obstructionist faction—with apocalyptic politics—that the primary author of our Constitution warned us against.
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The Year in Preview: Labor’s Outlook
2014 doesn’t look like it’s going to be all bad for unions, but it won’t be all good, either.
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Our Passivity Surplus
As recent calamities show, change takes empathy—plus insisting on making yourself heard.
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The New Deal That Could Have Been
How the white-supremacist South made possible the New Deal—and drastically curtailed it.
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This Is Not Wisconsin. It’s Worse.
If union adversaries can pass a right-to-work law in the home of the once-powerful United Auto Workers, they can pretty much do it anywhere.
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George McGovern: America’s Critic and Champion
The former presidential candidate challenged the country he loved while firmly embracing its people.
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Arlen Specter: A Poor Man’s Richard Nixon
From Democrat to Republican to Democrat again, from his fierce opposition of Robert Bork to his cutthroat cross examination of Anita Hill, Specter was always, above all, a politician.
