Holly Martins is a public historian and writer. Her recent projects include an oral history of gun violence victims, and a book-length work of narrative nonfiction based on the two years she spent in Ankara, Turkey, and which she blogs about at hollymartins.com. You can also find her @hollymartins66.
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 gave states the ability to enact right to work laws, granting opponents of unions the ability to institute open-shop laws.
