Part 8: "Building the House They Lived In"
Behind the prosperous surface of the fifties and labor's high point in membership figures, California working people face new challenges: the effects of the Cold War in labor, how the struggle for a fair employment practices law creates a labor/community/civil rights coalition, and the threat of the right to work campaign of 1958, culminating in the reunification of California AFL and CIO three years after the national merger. 28 minutes

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