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Haymarket Originals: Fragile JuggernautAuthor: Haymarket Originals
Haymarket Originals is a new home for audio deep dives, by and for the leftbrought to you by Haymarket Books. The first Haymarket Originals project is FRAGILE JUGGERNAUT: WHAT WAS THE CIO? Through a limited run of twenty episodes, a group of labor historians and organizers will revisit the near-mythical history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)and the high water mark of US labor activity in the 1930s and 1940sin the context of todays critical juncture in the labor movement. Join Tim Barker, Andrew Elrod, Ben Mabie, Alex Press, Emma Teitelman, Gabriel Winant, and special guests as they explore the trajectory of the American working class through a period of its greatest drama and political possibility. Language: en Genres: History, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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21. Coda
Episode 21
Wednesday, 17 September, 2025
This “coda" is our last episode in the mainline of this series on the meaning of the CIO, and here, the whole organizing committee gets together to discuss some of the larger themes and debates that an overview of this historical sequence can inspire. We ask, “what are the lasting consequences of its defeat (if it even was one),” “what does the CIO teach us about working class politics,” and “what does it even mean to make use of this history?” And more, and more. Thank you for listening and supporting the show. We hope that it has given you even a sliver of historical understanding that it has provided us. Fragile Juggernaut is a Haymarket Originals podcast exploring the history, politics, and strategic lessons of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the rank and file insurgency that produced it. Support Fragile Juggernaut on Patreon and receive our exclusive bimonthly newsletter, full of additional insights, reading recommendations, and archival materials we’ve amassed along the way.Buy Class Struggle Unionism, 20% Off: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1767-class-struggle-unionismSupport us on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FragileJuggernaut/posts
