You mentioned 1877. Have you seen the book, “1877: Year of Violence” by Robert V. Bruce? It’s from the 1970s and is an excellent review of and why events played our as they did. The year was an explicit lesson to people who founded the IWW 30 years later.
I am a new reader, and I appreciated this piece. I think it is great to see workers banding together to push back against the inhumanity late-stage capitalism encourages.
The question I have is what, if anything, is to keep the CEOs and stockholders from just passing these wage increases into the customer? I know very little about labor unions and strikes, so I was wondering if there explicit terms within contracts that dictate where the raises come from? Or how does that work? Feel free to just point me the direction of some reputable sources!
You mentioned 1877. Have you seen the book, “1877: Year of Violence” by Robert V. Bruce? It’s from the 1970s and is an excellent review of and why events played our as they did. The year was an explicit lesson to people who founded the IWW 30 years later.
I am a new reader, and I appreciated this piece. I think it is great to see workers banding together to push back against the inhumanity late-stage capitalism encourages.
The question I have is what, if anything, is to keep the CEOs and stockholders from just passing these wage increases into the customer? I know very little about labor unions and strikes, so I was wondering if there explicit terms within contracts that dictate where the raises come from? Or how does that work? Feel free to just point me the direction of some reputable sources!
Thank you again for your labor!