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New Book Celebrates Labor's Past, Present & Future
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Looking for a good read to fill a little down time this coming weekend? In These Times reviews a new book that provides plenty of information about the virtues of unions for labor activists to draw upon: There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America by Philip Dray is a celebration of organized labor -
 “Dray offers a grand context for thinking about labor-management relations in a society beset by ill will in millions of workplaces. He notes that the saga of organized labor in the United States is ‘much more than a catalog of strikes, picket lines and flailing police batons. The debate about work and industry and the struggle for workers’ rights and dignity have been consuming subjects since the birth of our nation; they have shaped laws and customs, acted as a crucible for social change, and ultimately helped define what it means to be an American.’ ”
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