| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio. By Elizabeth Fones-Wolf. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. viii, 307 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03119-9. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252- 07364-9.)
Histories of American radio usually belong in one of two genres—institutional histories of radio business and legislation or cultural studies of programs and audiences. Waves of Opposition bridges that divide. Elizabeth Fones- Wolf has written a definitive history of how, from the 1930s to the 1950s, unions struggled with corporations for radio outlets, airtime, and audience attention, in both national and local arenas. This book combines sources rarely deployed in the same study, from listener fan mail to labor and business correspondence to entertainment industry magazines such as Variety.	1
Waves of Opposition tells a qualified story of progress in three parts, from labor's first attempts at broadcasting during the Great Depression, through network censorship and the fight against corporate monopoly before and after World War II, to labor's steady on-air presence in postwar America. Throughout this period, Fones-Wolf argues, labor radio provided a rare forum for democratic politics, media reform, and noncommercial programming.	. . .

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