Re: What’s the Matter With Kansas This Week
Michael Hoover wrote:
would it be too stodgy, or too naive, or too deterministic to attribute problem with kansas (for that matter, problem with u.s., uk edition of frank’s is, in fact, titled what’s the matter with america) to small organized labor movement…
euphemistically name ‘right to work’ movement succeeded in 20 southern and western states with relatively little union density between end of ww2 and mid-50s (florida was first to do so, in 1944), buoyed by these victories, so-called ‘right to workers’ became jubliant when, in 1957, indiana became first highly industrialized, strong union state to jump on bandwagon to restrict union security…
Well, sure, but then what explains the incredible weakness of organized labor - even at the alleged peak of its power, the 1940s and 1950s?
Doug