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Working class voice: Labor unions in McLean County
"I started asking a bunch of questions, talking about it to my friends... It just seemed like the right move for us, so then I began actively, very actively campaigning to fight for the union, to vote yes to have a union in the plant." - Julie Clemons, Mitsubishi Motors worker
- Introduction
- Working on the railroad -- the first McLean County unions
- The Knights of Labor
- The rise of craft unions & the AFL
- Labor Day Celebrations
- Patrick H. Morrissey
- John Brown Lennon
- The Bloomington Labor Party
- "Mother" Jones & the 1917 Streetcar Strike
- 1922 Railroad strike
- Labor political power -- 1924
- Unemployed organized -- 1930s Depression
- 1930s union organizing
- Post-war prosperity
- General Electric
- Modine
- Eureka-Williams
- Firestone
- 1988 conflicts
- UAW 2488
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
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