Part 4: "Not So Jazzy"
From the Wheatland Hop Riot of 1913 and the framing of Tom Mooney to the Wall Street Crash, the realities behind the nostalgia for "the jazz age" are exposed. Prosperity for some people contrasts with low wages and terrible working conditions in the mass production industries for most workers. A repressive political atmosphere sends immigrants back "home" and stops unionism-both AFL craft and IWW industrial varieties-in its tracks. 10 minutes

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