McDonald's workers protest inside of a McDonalds restaurant in south Los Angeles on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018.

Labor in the US

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 5, 2019

Steven Greenhouse, former New York Times labor and workplace reporter discusses the history of the U.S. labor movement and his new book, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (Knopf, 2019)

 

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