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It amazes me how often articles about this sort of stuff treat the weakness of American labor as some sort of inherent property of the soil or our culture. Peop
by naravara 8y ago
It amazes me how often articles about this sort of stuff treat the weakness of American labor as some sort of inherent property of the soil or our culture. People are quick to talk about squishy topics like individualism but gloss over or completely ignore the fact that we used to literally beat up and assassinate labor leaders.
- djrogers 8y ago> gloss over or completely ignore the fact that we used to literally beat up and assassinate labor leaders. Speaking of glossing over - let’s not pretend that the history of violence in the US labor movement was all one way...
- monetus 8y agoAny examples for the rest of us?
- fsloth 8y agoNot OP but I like this answer in Quora related to your question: https://www.quora.com/How-and-why-did-some-labor-unions-become-intertwined-with-organized-crime-like-the-mafia https://www.quora.com/How-and-why-did-some-labor-unions-beco...
- TangoTrotFox 8y agoIf you look back in US history, strikes and such were frequently supported by arms. One of the more famous was the 'Pinkerton Rebellion' [1]. It's interesting to consider the interweaving between class, guns, labor rights, and social order in general. It's certainly much more more nuanced than most people give thought to now a days. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
- gaoshan 8y agoDefinitely was not one way because both sides committed acts of violence right? Specifically, on one side you had people committing violence in order to retain their positions of power and advantage over a weaker group and on the other you had people doing it in order to improve their positions of weakness and disadvantage against a more powerful group. In some ways it's kind of like when a lion attacks a gazelle and the gazelle fights back... that kind of "not all one way".