{"id":838290,"date":"2022-10-13T05:59:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T05:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=259086"},"modified":"2022-10-13T05:59:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T05:59:52","slug":"a-sixties-radical-recalls-a-different-era-in-u-s-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/10\/13\/a-sixties-radical-recalls-a-different-era-in-u-s-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sixties\u2019 Radical Recalls a Different Era in U.S. Labor\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Emspak describes shop floor organizing in an era when national bargaining on that scale was still the norm, rather than the exception, and unionized manufacturing had yet to be decimated by de-industrialization. Even when good-paying factory jobs were far more plentiful, however, management and its labor union partners had a shared interest in barring the door to former campus agitators like the  Emspak, who left the University of Wisconsin with a PhD in labor history <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/13\/a-sixties-radical-recalls-a-different-era-in-u-s-labor\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/13\/a-sixties-radical-recalls-a-different-era-in-u-s-labor\/\">A Sixties\u2019 Radical Recalls a Different Era in U.S. Labor\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/13\/a-sixties-radical-recalls-a-different-era-in-u-s-labor\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Emspak describes shop floor organizing in an era when national bargaining on that scale was still the norm, rather than the exception, and unionized manufacturing had yet to be decimated by de-industrialization. Even when good-paying factory jobs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838291,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838290\/revisions\/838291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}