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The exhilarating grassroots working class culture that discovered itself
in the strikes and organizing campaigns of the 1930s has been unmade and
erased in the following half century. How did 100 percent unionization of
restaurants in 1941 (a union card in the window practically required to
get steady customers) become the low-wage, temporary, non-union cappuccino
bars, taquerias, pizzerias, chain stores, and dessert boutiques of today?
How come no one thinks there is a working class, let alone that they are
in it? Our basic ability to see our lives as a collective rather than individual
predicament has practically disappeared. How
did this all happen? |
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