Ep.13 Labor's Giant Step

We talk about a hot new collab between a beloved fast food chain and the Ivy League, and Elon Musk's incredibly bad-faith take on work from home before we dive into the first four chapters of Art Preis's 'Labor's Giant Step,' which is a history of the first twenty years of the CIO. The book is an excellent history of a resurgence in labor militancy in the 1930s, and has several important lessons for the increasing union activity/labor organizing we see happening today. Episode cover: Photo from the Minneapolis Teamsters strike in 1934