“Just as in the 1930s,” Shawn Fain reminded his fellow auto workers, “we’re living in a time of stunning inequality throughout our society.” Back then, in those 1930s, UAW members began a generation-long struggle that put a significant dent in that “stunning inequality.” By the early 1960s, auto worker struggles and sacrifices had helped give birth — in the United States — to a mass middle class. A majority of a major nation’s households, after paying for life’s most basic necessities, actually had money left over. More

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