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Labor Movement of the 1930's, The
Professor of history Gary Gerstle talks about the rise of organized labor in the 1930's, when the Great Depression cost millions of Americans their jobs. He explains that, in 1935, President Roosevelt engineered two of the most important pieces of l...
09:06
Men, Women and the Union Movement
American history professor Alice Kessler-Harris traces the history of the labor movement in the United States, beginning with the collectives of the early 19th century, through the huge unionizing drives of the 1930's.