Maurice Zeitlin discusses his book, “Left Out.” He begins by talking about his career as a sociology professor at University of California at Los Angeles. He discusses the CIO, Congress of Industrial Organizations, which was a group of unions in the mass production market. He talks about how labor unions helped fight for women workers’ rights and allowed them to work while pregnant. Zeitlin talks about how Henry Ford ran his automobile factory and resisted allowing his workers to form a union. He describes the role of black workers in unions and their incredible loyalty to employers. Zeitlin ends the interview by talking about Joe McCarthy and the Communism scare in America in the 1950s.
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