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Chicago radio station WCFL was the first and longest surviving labor radio station in the nation, beginning in 1926 as a listener-supported station owned and operated by the Chicago Federation of Labor and lasting more than fifty years. The station emphasized popular entertainment and labor and public affairs programming, seeking during its early decades to help organize workers, increase public awareness and support for the union movement, and enhance working-class consciousness and culture.

Nathan Godfried analyzes labor's challenge to the dominant media by examining the station's history and its dialectical relationship with the organized labor movement, the corporate radio world, and the federal government from 1926 to 1978. The station's story will be of interest to both labor and broadcast historians, showing how WCFL's development paralleled important changes in the organized labor movement and in the movement's interaction with business and government.

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University of Illinois Press
Language
English
Pages
390

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Subjects
History, Labor movement, Labor radio stations, WCFL (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.), Radiostations, Arbeidersbeweging, Geschichte 1926-1978, WCFL, Labor movement, united states, Radio stations
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Chicago, Illinois

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Table of Contents

Introduction : labor and the mass media to 1925
The creation of WCFL, 1925-26
The promise of labor radio, 1927-28
Clear channel and other battles, 1929-32
"Something different into our lives" : programming, 1929-32
Tangled web, 1932-37
Labor radio and working-class culture, 1932-37
Labor radio without Nockels, 1937-46
"Showmanship," 1937-46
William Lee and commercial success, 1946-66
The fall of labor radio, 1967-78
Conclusion : the mixed legacy of labor radio.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-380) and index.

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The history of communication

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384.54/06/57734
Library of Congress
HE8698 .G63 1997, HE8698.G63 1997

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xix, 390 p. :
Number of pages
390

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OL973238M
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ISBN 10
0252022874, 0252065921
LCCN
96010132
OCLC/WorldCat
34730762
Library Thing
1122
Amazon ID (ASIN)
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1850027
285019

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