|
the practices of american trade unions follow largely from the sector-monopoly model.
so they are particular to it, and are not statements about why unions are generally preferable to their absence.
unless you prefer being powerless, or unless you have somehow been persuaded that the interests of capital and those of people who sell their labor power for a wage are identical. on the second, it follows from general political and/or aesthetic dispositions, and so is circular--conservatives tend to pretend that these interests coincide, others do not.
so there's almost no point in bothering to lay out arguments, since they're little more that repetitions of more general political viewpoints.
so for example, had ace written something in support of union activity, i would have been incredulous.
but he didn't.
__________________
a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
|