On 10/10/07, Michael Nuwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The specific issue that I'm emphasizing in this thread is that these > struggles were not only, or primarily, demanding a share of the benefits > from a mass production economy. Significant parts of the labor force > were not yet "prisoners of the America dream," to borrow a phrase from > Mike Davis. > > Throughout the period from 1880 to the 1930s important parts of the > working class struggled for something which never emerged. And, for > sure, that struggle was not for a piece of the modern mass consumption pie.
Can you elaborate on this? If not for "a piece of the mass consumption pie", what were their aims? And why do you think they failed? Is it because Fordism and the welfare-state lured many parts of the working class over to their side? -raghu.
