Newman, L. and T. Skocpol (2023) Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party. Columbia University Press

When I was in my teens in the late 1950s, I played baseball for a team sponsored by Franklin Local 2635 of the United Steelworkers of America.We played teams sponsored by the Steelworkers' Lower Cambria Local, the Italian Sons and Daughters of America, and the like.Now the best two teams in what is a comparable league in my home town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, are both sponsored by local pharmacies, and there are no teams representing union locals or ethnic lodges anymore.