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How Do You Strike a Walmart?

The tactics of the 1930s won't work

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Matt Yglesias makes a very interesting point about the difference between Depression-era unionization, and now:

Thinking about worker protests at Walmart and reading a biography of FDR, it's striking how far we are from the sort of context in which the United Auto Workers became a force in the industry.

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