Animation Historian Jake Friedman Reveals Disney’s Labor History
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FIT faculty member Jake S. Friedman, instructor of the History of Animation course, has published his third book. In The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation’s Golden Age, Friedman examines a chapter of Disney history that has gone unreported for 80 years.
In the 1930s and ’40s, often referred to as animation’s golden age, labor unions spread across Hollywood and the United States enacted the most comprehensive labor laws in the nation’s history history.