. >> on lectures in history, texas christian university professor max brockwell teaches a class on changes to labor organizing in the post-world war ii era. he describes how unions argued for the continuation of wartime practices, but often failed due to opposition from manufacturers and the lack of political party supports. his class is about an hour. the big question, what we have to explain, how do we go from this new deal and world war ii. , in which the cio is growing exponentially and it is militant and all sorts of voice, and in which workers are calling on the government to 1 -- and other forms of inequities, how do we get from that to the current moment, with the remnants of a much more bureaucratic and business friendly timid and conventional union? as the last document in his chapter talked about how did the , labor movement mature from this conflict -- class conflict model to one of labor-management peace? if we view that as maturation and not something else. let's talk about what changes in the period. if you recall, coming out of world war ii, everything was still up in the a