Get the book if you havent already but i would urge you to read it. Its absolutely faceting, very well written, very relevant research. Theres a narrative flow to it and its very troubling i have to say but thats the purpose of the book i think. I would like to announce unfortunately that our event in two days with ambassador dennis ross whos another expert in the middle east is unable to come to college station. He had a family emergency, so his lecture wednesday evening will be postponed until later. Kim ghattas is an Emmy Awardwinning journalist and writer who cover the middle east for 20 years for bbc and the Financial Times picture reported from iraq, saudi arabia, syria, lebanon,n, and she covered the r between israel and hezbollah earning an emmy for International News coverage. Shes also reported on the state department and on american politics regularly traveling with secretaries of state including condoleezza rice, Hillary Clinton and john kerry. She has been published in atl
Earlier. He called them the turbulent years. The years that gave rise to the cio and all of the organizing and mieverything we saw then. They werent years of upheaval, organization and progress so much as a big turnabout. A way in which the american working class suddenly took a turn to a different stage in its existence where we could say that from the 30s to the 70s was an experience of almost unbroken progress and expanding rights for workers. But in the years between 1968 and 1988, a lot of that turned around. So turnabout years. I want to start with three stories that help locate whats going on in this period. Then talk a bit about whats happening to the economy. Talk about Public Sector workers in the period and the physical austerity they faced and conclude with barometers of whats happening to working class america by the end of this period. So to begin, let me start with three stories. Im going to locate these in 1977. So roughly about halfway into the period that were talking
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