In December of 1936, a day into their historic sit-down strike at a General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, autoworkers set up a school... they took classes in public speaking, labor journalism, political economy, and the history of the labor movement.
The start of the modern labor movement in America owed a lot to 'Brookwood's Detroit vanguard' where key players in the strikes had spent time studying organizing tactics and strategies.
Today's young activists are returning to 1930s organizing pamphlets for strategy. There are even two new podcasts devoted exclusively to the history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Propelled by enthusiastic young workers and new leaders, unions are starting to organize and strike, indicating a revival in the labor movement but union density remains low at 10 percent in the US.
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