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Hollywood Is a Union Town, but the History Is Complicated

Steven Wishnia The Indypendent
The American movie industry has been one of the most consistently unionized sectors of the economy since the 1930s — but to achieve that, workers had to overcome “the iron fist of the moguls” and organized crime, says historian Gerald Horne

I’m a TV Writer on Food Stamps

Jeanie Bergen New York Magazine
While writers like me struggle to make ends meet, Hollywood studios get rich off the content we create.

The Writers’ Strike Opens Old Wounds

Kate Fortmueller Los Angeles Review of Books
While the methods of production and distribution have transformed several times over, every industry-wide strike since 1950 has been about residuals. Residuals have historically been the most hard-fought battles. Now there is streaming, and AI.
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