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5 unsung films that dramatize America's rich labor history

  • Written by Peter Dreier, E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College
image'The Salt of the Earth,' made during the height of the post-World War II Red Scare, was blacklisted.IMDB

Unions are more popular now than at any time since 1965, and the U.S. is in the midst of a new upsurge of union organizing. Is a Hollywood drama about angry Starbucks baristas or frustrated Amazon warehouse workers far behind?

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