circa 1935: A scene depicting unionized strikers fighting with a group of 'scabs' or nonunion replacement employees as they try to cross the picket line at a factory.

Protecting Democracy In the New Gilded Age

The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 13, 2015

Throughout American history, hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were often treated as a threat to democracy, despite their persistence to this day. In The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power, Steve Fraser examines the rise of American capitalism, and the attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth.

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