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> Heaven forbid “wage inflation!” I realized after double checking that it was actually a 1942 Roosevelt bill, and they were trying to figure out how to keep a
by ch4s3 5y ago
> Heaven forbid “wage inflation!”
I realized after double checking that it was actually a 1942 Roosevelt bill, and they were trying to figure out how to keep a lid on rising prices during the war. It's also not uniformly good if prices also rise quickly. Inflationary spirals are real, and very bad for regular people.
> Was the AFL pushing for employer-based and the CIO pushing for national?
I'd have to double check.
> It’s virtually impossible for an average person to learn about the history of the American labor movement.
A bunch of this stuff is available in more popular history and online now. "The Devil Is Here in These Hills" is supposed to be good, but I haven't read it.
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoBlaming employer-based healthcare on the stabilization act sounds suspicious to me.
- ch4s3 5y agoIt was intentionally tax incentivized via the tax code. There’s mountains of writing about it. See https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-the-us-has-employer-sponsored-health-insurance.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th...