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Unions and Democracy
From a very good On The Media piece on labor’s image problem, UC Santa Barbara History Professor Nelson Lichtenstein, when asked if he’s objective on the issue of unions:
I would say that I’m an historian who has seen and understood that the development of democracy in any nation, in any part of the world is almost always, is always joined at the hip with the rise of institutions that represent the working class in some organized fashion.
