Going postal
by Mark Ames · first published 2006
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Give https://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Rebellion-Workplaces-Col... a good read through. Many, many facets of labor relations didn't change one iota from far before WWII. There's an elitism inherent in American culture that is just a right…
on “Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probably not going to work out” ↗…class solidarity. Welch wasn't a problem until what he feared, backlash from people who had been around for the last cycle of cruelty precipitated by his ideas, sufficiently died/attritioned out. Give Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond by Mark Ames a read. He does an excellent job at laying out the pedigree of thought from slave/plantation management…
on “Jack Welch, the Man Who Broke Capitalism (2022)” ↗…wages, increasingly expensive stock, goods prices continuing to increase outstripping wage growth, and capital continuing to consolidate in a smaller and smaller portion of the population. Give the book Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion in Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond by Mark Ames a read. Also take a look into the history of Labor Unions in the United States. Wikipedia is as good…
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