Volume 2, Number 8 · May 28, 1964
Modern Times
By Michael Harrington
Jobs, Men and Machines
edited by Charles Markham
Praeger, 176 pp., $4.95
Labor Today
by B.J. Widick
Houghton Mifflin, 256 pp., $3.75
'The AFL-CIO is the most important single component of the American Left.' Thirty years ago this idea would have been regarded as a liberal and radical truism. Today, most intellectuals would probably think it an act of nostalgic piety at best, a refusal of reality at worst. For a series of large, sad, and undeniable half-truths have come to obscure the labor movement's function in American society.
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