VL is about Work (Marcuse and Vineland's Electrican).2

[Terrance]

One of the great paradoxes of the American Labor Movement is that it is
and has primarily been, especially since the 1920s, a working class
movement outside of the broad stream of socialist thought. Most
references to Unions as the institutional expression of class struggle
existed mainly in the early rhetoric of the movement, but rarely in its
operating principles. These have always been mainly rooted in the
tradition of "pure and simple" economic unionism. Every really
successful union leader since Samuel Gompers has acted firmly in this
conservative tradition, including the Marxist leaders of the left-wing
unions of the CIO. 

Basically pure and simple, or "business" unionism, as it developed in
the United States, accepted private property and the market as the
fundamental, and largely beneficial, pillars of economic life.
Capitalism, while fundamentally desirable, had to be tempered by more
humane institutions capable of minimizing the negative effects of
unrestrained individualism and extreme concentration of economic power.
The labor movement is one such institution. 

see Ellen Schrecker, "McCarthy and the Labor Movement: The Role of the
State," in Steve Rosswurn, ed. The CIO's Left-Led Unions (New Brunswick,
NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992), pp. 141-144.