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The Labor Movement is a Mess... and What We Can Do About It

Marc Kagan

Marc Kagan, long-time union activist and author of the forthcoming Take Back the Power: The Fall and Rise and Fall of NYC's Transport Workers Union, 1975-2009, writes about contemporary and historical labor issues.

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