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Because doing something that involves other people requires consent. That's what people 'organising better working conditions' forget. It's not actually within
by t1E9mE7JTRjf 3y ago
Because doing something that involves other people requires consent. That's what people 'organising better working conditions' forget. It's not actually within their power, and the conditions they want might not match what the employer wants. Whereas acting for yourself (quiting) requires only your action.
- jacquesm 3y agoI'm so happy that those people that forgot all this at the turn of the previous century did what they did. Without that you'd have 80 hour workweeks for peanuts.
- t1E9mE7JTRjf 3y agoThat seems like an incomplete comparison. We could also look at the inverse, where industry shut down as it couldn't operate and thus those people have zero hour workweeks. Your argument deviates from one around consent back to the worker seeking the upper hand, which isn't that different (just the other way around) to what you counter with - where workers refuted being overworked (the employer having control). Control over the other party - in any direction isn't good. Only consent, that was my original point.