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>> Tight labor markets empower workers more than any union. Citation needed.

• ggm 5y ago
  I suspect because of their role in process they ARE the citation because fiat: if they say it, it must be true. (Reader: it's not true. It's just an academic opinion based on one narrow view of the empowerment of labour mobility during times of full employment and it totally ignores the power balance, and life circumstances leaving many workers functionally trapped in roles. Working poor have anything BUT the freedom to move, sometimes) Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor, is an adjunct professor of economics at George Washington University