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The Case for Working-Class Nationalism
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 Feb. 25, 2026 | PERSPECTIVE | […] The massive growth of the labor movement in the 1930s helped shift the balance of power between labor and capital and turn once precarious jobs in industries like auto and steel into real paths to the middle class. But it also gave rise to a new creed—what labor historian Gary Gerstle calls working-class Americanism—that helped unify a culturally and ethnically fractured working class by rooting labor’s demands in a shared national identity… Compact PHOTO/DAVID McNEW/GETTY IMAGES
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