Word: movement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unable to muster sufficient strength to force its way with the government, the CLC preferred to remain aloof and not dirty its hands. But behind this fear, Bauer's comments suggest that the CLC used the postal confrontation to discipline its own ranks, and to further centralize the labor movement under its direction...
Organizationally, the labor movement is hampered by the fact that its membership consists mainly of working people with a low level of poltical awareness. Leadership cannot pursue policies that membership does not understand and towards which workers would not be sympathetic. But labor leaders have also not followed the most progressive possible strategy within the limits defined by organizational considerations. On the contrary, leadership's ideological preference for elite politics and reform through state bureaucracy has even further reduced labor's political power...
...upsurge in Canadian student activism creates a stark contrast to the relative complacency of their counterparts in the United States. The gradual radicalization of the students has played a crucial role in the left-wing politics of Canada, because students provide an important academic base for the working-class movement and help legitimize left-wing demands...
...clothes racks in search of sexy duds. Riesman, in a recent interview with The Crimson, explained his "theory" was formed spontaneously when Klemesrud told him that women were once again becoming sex objects. He referred mainly to one of the more sensitive and critical problems with the women's movement. Primarily, Riesman says that some "women have felt pushed around, made to feel square," by radical feminists who were trying to prove their point...
...movements overshoot," Riesman says, but adds that "this movement has not achieved its goals and will not succeed until there are as many women, percentage wise, majoring in chemistry at MIT, as there are men." Riesman is right. Look around at the meager number of tenured women at Harvard--there are only eleven. Read the polls which tell you there are fewer college-educated women entering the job market than men without college educations. The women's movement has certainly publicized its cause, but seems to be sinking into quicksand along the road somewhere...