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Source: The Nation

2-7-18 (accessed)

Claim: Historians have got the demise of organized labor wrong

Labor was militant in the 1970s despite George Meaney’s cozy relationship with Nixon, says historian Lane Windham.

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Claim: Historians have got the demise of organized labor wrong