For workers in America, Reed E. Larson is a name few knew while he was alive, and fewer know now 10 years after his passing, but to whom we all nevertheless owe a great deal.

Larson “temporarily” stepped away in 1954 from a promising career as an engineer in his native Kansas to spearhead the effort to pass the state’s right-to-work law, which was approved by voters as a constitutional amendment four years later.

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