Here's the solution to the riddle: accepting two-tier wages makes them weak; fighting for shorter work time makes them strong. Not my answer. Karl Marx's. But the labor history I've read (primary sources, not just secondary) confirms it.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > Gene Coyle wrote: > > Only by cutting the work week to (first step) 32 hours can US > wage-cutting > > be slowed or stopped. And unions can only be strengthened by cutting > > working hours. > > Unions couldn't be be strengthened by, say, a general strike or the > building of a pro-labor political party? And if unions are so weak to > accept two-tiered wages, how can they be so strong that they can cause > a shortening the work week to 32 hours? > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your > own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Sandwichman
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