This “coda" is our last episode in the mainline of this series on the meaning of the CIO, and here, the whole organizing committee gets together to discuss some of the larger themes and debates that an overview of this historical sequence can inspire. We ask, “what are the lasting consequences of its defeat (if it even was one),” “what does the CIO teach us about working class politics,” and “what does it even mean to make use of this history?” And more, and more. 

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