«It was in these years of cross-racial organizing that unions experienced a Solidarity Dividend, with membership climbing to levels that let unions set wages across large sectors of the economy. More and more of the country’s workforce joined a union on the job, with membership reaching a high-water mark of one out of every three workers in the 1950s. The victories these unions won reshaped work for us all. The forty-hour workweek, overtime pay, employer health insurance and retirement benefits, worker compensation—all these components of a “good job” came from collective bargaining and union advocacy with governments in the late 1930s and ’40s. And the power to win these benefits came from solidarity—black, white, and brown, men and women, immigrant and native-born.»

Finally, finally, FINALLY getting back to this, after way too long reading bad science fiction and rereading good sci-fi.

17% through  “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (One World Essentials)” by Heather McGhee.

I wonder if the “good manufacturing jobs” Trump and the right are so nostalgic for were only made possible by interracial unions (and therefore won’t pay as well if we go back to whites-only unions (if any unions)).