I think in the '50s, the percentage of Americans employed by the private sector who were in unions … - George Packer

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George Packer

I think in the '50s, the percentage of Americans employed by the private sector who were in unions was above 30 percent. And now it's in the single digits, so it plummeted. And with the plummeting of unions came the weakening of an organized working-class voice in politics.

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