Zócalo Public SquareHarold Meyerson – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 There Is Power In a Union, Potentially, We Hope https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/09/11/there-is-power-in-a-union-potentially-we-hope/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/09/11/there-is-power-in-a-union-potentially-we-hope/ideas/up-for-discussion/#comments Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:01:35 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=50614 Organized labor used to be big in the United States. One out of every three workers was in a union, and manufacturing jobs were the backbone of labor. Today, manufacturing jobs continue to disappear, and unions have been in decline for decades. A lot has changed—but how much of the change has been inevitable? In advance of the Zócalo event “Can the Left Survive Without Labor?” we asked several scholars for their views on the following question: What would it take for organized labor in the U.S. to regain the clout it had 50 years ago?

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