There is power in a union
by Philip Dray · first published 2010
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This book is a history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day. From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first real factories in America, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth-century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for their share of American bounty has shaped our national experience. Here the author's ambition is to show the vital accomplishments of organized labor in that time and illuminate its central role in our social, political, economic, and cultural evolution. This is an epic character-driven nar
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…American business especially, but Americans generally. In America even union workers hate unions. It's baked into our cultural DNA. (This is my takeaway from reading the excellent American history book, There is Power in a Union, by Philip Dray.) By contrast, European elites settled into a power sharing arrangement with unions long ago, at the end of the 19th century. Because there's less conflict over power in Europe, there's…
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on “Amazon's Anti-Union Training Video [video]” ↗…sure as heck isn't as sane as a place like Germany. The US has _always_ been strongly deferential to corporate interests. It's the thing that stood out to me the most when I read the excellent book, "There is Power in a Union", a history of the American labor movement from the early 19th century to the mid 20th century. Even at the apex of the union movement--and thus the apex of a national collectivist mentality--the U.S.…
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