by Haymarket Originals
Haymarket Originals is a new home for audio deep dives, by and for the left—brought to you by Haymarket Books. The first Haymarket Originals project is FRAGILE JUGGERNAUT: WHAT WAS THE CIO? Through a limited run of twenty episodes, a group of labor historians and organizers will revisit the near-mythical history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)—and the high water mark of US labor activity in the 1930s and 1940s—in the context of today’s critical juncture in the labor movement. Join Tim Barker, Andrew Elrod, Ben Mabie, Alex Press, Emma Teitelman, Gabriel Winant, and special guests as they explore the trajectory of the American working class through a period of its greatest drama and political possibility.
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March 20, 2025
<p>Episode 19 of Fragile Juggernaut weighs up the results of the struggle for hegemony in the 1945-1946 strike wave over the next several years. While millions of workers participated in militant actions, their strikes were uncoordinated and politically isolated, opening the way for the political right to organize a backlash and recapture Congress in the midterm elections. </p><p>At the center of the agenda of the new Republican Congress: labor law reform, codified in the form of the notorious 1947 Taft-Hartley Act. We dive into the details and consequences of the law, restraining workers’ right to organize and, most significantly, driving a wedge between the left wing of the CIO and the rest of the federation.</p><p>Featured music: The OPA Shout (Pete Seeger); The Same Old Merry Go-Round (Oscar Brand); Taft-Hartley Blues (unidentified); The New Walls of Jericho (Richard Huey and Chorus); The Peekskill Story (The Weavers).</p><p>Fragile Juggernaut is a Haymarket Originals podcast exploring the history, politics, and strategic lessons of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the rank and file insurgency that produced it. Support Fragile Juggernaut on Patreon and receive our exclusive bimonthly newsletter, full of additional insights, reading recommendations, and archival materials we’ve amassed along the way. </p><p>Support us on patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/FragileJuggernaut/posts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/FragileJuggernaut/posts</a></p><p>Buy Set the Earth on Fire: The Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 and the Birth of the Police: <a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2220-set-the-earth-on-fire" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2220-set-the-earth-on-fire</a></p>
January 27, 2025
<p>The sudden end of World War II was met with both exultation and terror. While millions of Americans understood that the killing abroad could come to an end, the fate of the depression economy that had only been revived by wartime mobilization now hung uncertainly in the balance. The saga of demobilization and reconversion, the name for the process of converting the economy back to civilian production and the winding down of military contracts, is the subject of Episode 18 of Fragile Juggernaut: a battle between business interests and a revived CIO social democracy for hegemony over the reconversion process, fought in the backdrop of the largest strike wave in American history. </p><p>Buy Detroit: I Do Mind Dying, 20% Off: <a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/458-detroit-i-do-mind-dying" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/458-detroit-i-do-mind-dying</a></p>
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