Abstract
To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in 1964, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America sponsored The Inheritance , a documentary on US labor history. The film was an anomaly among contemporary union films. It conveyed the Cold War liberal and business unionist message that trade unions had become mainstays of capitalism, seeking advancement within the system. But the film—produced, directed, and written by political leftists and progressives—also retained a social-unionist vision, linking together earlier battles for industrial and social democracy with the ongoing civil rights struggle. It remains a frequently viewed and discussed documentary a half century after its release.
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