The New Rights Origins in the Labor Battles of the 1930s
What are the origins of modern conservatism?\xa0 The failed Goldwater campaign?\xa0 Or the Cold War era discontent of midwestern small capitalists?\xa0 Historian Kathryn Olmstead argues that it should be located even earlier, in the intense and massive labor unrest that took place in the fields of California in the 1930s.\xa0 The response by growers and other elites pioneered methods that have become familiar today, from deploying populist rhetoric in the interests of big business to funding ostensibly grassroots organizations. (Encore presentation.)\nResources:\nKathryn Olmstead, Right Out of California: The Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism The New Press, 2015\n\nThe post The New Right\u2019s Origins in the Labor Battles of the 1930s appeared first on KPFA.