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Musings and recollections about the “good old days” are integral to any discussion of organized labor today in the twenty-first century and its decline. In the United States, like Europe, the first forms of labor organization were the so-called mutual aid societies or craft guilds1 that were designed to limit entry into a trade or industry and to preserve standards.

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The great labor changes of the 1930s, in the wake of the Roosevelt administration inauguration in the spring of 1933, took two forms. The first was not law or regulation at all. Anything but that. It consisted of the emergence of stoppages of considerable dimension in cities like Minneapolis, Seattle, and San Francisco, where the longshore strike was to emerge in 1934 (in both Seattle and San Francisco there was the possibility of a general strike, idling workers in many industries). Ambitious initiatives were now undertaken by both general unions (the Teamsters), as well as industrial unions, nascent labor organizations whose militancy frequently outstripped their counterpart American Federation of Labor (AFL) craft affiliates.

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4 - The Historical Backdrop

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