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Freedom is a constant struggle. (Special Feature: Introduction).(labor relations)(Brief Article)

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From: Social Policy
Date: 20020322
Author:Miller, Mike

"Freedom is a constant struggle," was a verse we sang in the 1960s civil rights movement. Perhaps nothing better illustrates the principle than the meatpacking industry. Upton Sinclair's scathing 1920s expose, The Jungle, led to Federal consumer protection legislation, but nothing improved workers' wages, hours, benefits and working conditions until the late 1930s organizing by the CIO's Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee (PWOC), led in Chicago by Herb March. Like the other Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) unions, PWOC was "industrial--organizing skilled and ...

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