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Canada and the United States

Nathan Godfried. WCFL: Chicago's Voice of Labor, 1926–78. (The History of Communication.) Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 1997. Pp. xix, 390. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.

In the period between the wars, the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) was unlike any other labor council in the country. Led by left-leaning activists, it advanced a militant, class-conscious style of unionism that made the city a stronghold of organized labor. In addition to overseeing mass organizing drives in steel and meatpacking, it launched a Labor Party, supported the effort to unionize female teachers and clerical workers, and played a leading role in the campaign to free Tom Mooney. This insurgency was made possible, in part, by a strong movement culture that sustained labor activism and helped weld together Chicago's ethnically diverse working class. A key element in the production of this culture was WCFL, the radio station launched by the Federation in 1926. . . .

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