it’s popping up all over the place. from today’s crains: “more labor unrest on tap in nyc”
“There is anger out there, and it is exacerbated by the opulent lifestyle that everybody sees,” says Richard Boris, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education at Hunter College. “We have now the recipe for very charged collective bargaining across the board.”
it’s nothing all that new. and it’s damn familiar to students of history.
More than anything else, the Great Strike of 1877 signaled a breach between capital and labor in American society. The second half of the nineteenth century had witnessed the rise of the modern industrial order, complete with production on a massive scale, far-flung systems of distribution, the deskilling of labor, wild fluctuations in the economy, and the unprecedented concentration of wealth and power.
