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When did humane treatment, job security, and the worker's collective voice leave the picture? Are we to simply praise everything laid out here?
by abnercoimbre 5y ago
When did humane treatment, job security, and the worker's collective voice leave the picture? Are we to simply praise everything laid out here?
- rodgerd 5y agoSome time in the 1980s, when people were convinced that if they stabbed themselves in the back, they had a shot at being millionaires.
- unionpivo 5y agoHonestly ? When communist stopped being a real threat sometimes in 80s. As horrific as communism was, the average worker in the west probably indirectly benefited from capitalist being scared of something similar happening closer to home, and gave concessions. After the fall of communism that trend reversed and workers are steadily loosing ground. As someone who was born in one of those communist countries I am glad that its dead, and I don't want it to ever come back, but It did serve as an example of what can happen if you try to squeeze too much out of people.