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	"author_name": "DSA-LA Political Education Committee",
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	"title": "The Making of the Los Angeles Working Class",
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	"description": "Early Los Angeles leaders were proudly anti-union, and Los Angeles was an openly pro-business, &quot;open shop&quot; town. But today, organized labor benefits from a wide base of popular support, and is an influential force in municipal politics. This shift in the landscape of political power happened rapidly and relatively recently. How did that shift occur? Who drove this political change? And how should socialists navigate our current political landscape to build a base for our politics among the Los Angeles working class? To consider these questions, the DSA-LA Political Education Committee is proud to present a new original study series: Open Shop or Union Town? Power, Organization and Struggle in the Wicked City. Through a combination of historical and first-person accounts, we explore the shifting social, political, and economic conditions in Los Angeles, and the strategies that movements, organizations, and leaders have deployed to drive change. This first installment, &quot;The Making of the Los Angeles Working Class&quot; tracks the growth of union strength after the New Deal and its subsequent fall during the deindustrialization era of the 1970’s and 1980’s. Grounded in the recommended readings below, we&#x27;ll examine labor’s successes and failures as unions navigated the shifting economic and political terrain. Recommended readings can be found on pages 5 -31 in the NIGHT SCHOOL READER - AVAILABLE HERE: &quot;The Citadel of the Open Shop&quot; in L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement by Ruth Milkman (2006) &quot;The Decline of Manufacturing Unionism&quot; in From Mission to Microchip, by Fred Glass (2016) &quot;The Poverty Trap&quot; from Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US Big City by Mike Davis (1999) Find information on other installments in the full Night School Series here: https://dsa-la.org/night-school/",
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