IVIV (1) There Will be Computers for This
alice wellintown
alicewellintown at gmail.com
Fri Sep 18 20:19:57 CDT 2009
The Fall of The House Of Labor in America is owed to all you note
here. And, dismemberment from inside Labor itself. Why is VL & AtD so
focused on the dismemberment of the unions by the unions? Poignant? No
doubt. Tragic? Yes. For Labor was once a mighty power and it fell hard
and fast and far. That's tragedy. And, Pynchon doesn't write tragedy.
He writes American Romance.
> In that David Mitchell book, _Black Swan Green_, a character states,
> "you're giving up unions that your grandfathers died to build"
> Poignant. I wonder, though, rather than the workers themselves
> dismembering and discrediting,
> isn't it more like legislation, private security forces, mass media
> owned by antiunion folk, and professional unionbusting
> lawyer firms, continually exerting pressure from without, not to mention
> temptation corrupting union organizations from within, and competing
> demands for workers' attention as well as
> unrealistic expectations on the workers' part as to what
> representation can or can't do...
> -- a union-as-entity isn't terribly different from a business in
> respect of how many difficulties it naturally encounters,
> and 90% of new businesses go broke every year, don't they?
>
> I'm just sayin' - hey, we still have some unions even in this
> "scabland garrison state", they haven't all gone away by any means...
> Long may they run!
>
>
>
> --
> "Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the
> revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world
> declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism." -
> Martin Luther King
>
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