The Rise and Fall of the Black Blue-Collar Middle Class, part 1 - a podcast by Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)

Umass Lowell Economics professor William Lazonick, outlines the history of how government and economic conditions favored the rise of a Black blue-collar middle class from the 1960''s to the 1970's, and how shifts in policy and in the economy caused its unmaking from the 1980's onwards.

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