LABRST 2A03 Lecture Notes - Winnipeg General Strike, State Capitalism, Wage Slavery
16 Oct 2013
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Percentage of non-agricultural workers who are members of a union in a given occupation, industry, or geographical area. All workers advantaged by high union density. Workers rebelled against abuses of industrial capitalism. Massive poverty, deplorable public health conditions, and social decay. A member of any of the bands of english workers who destroyed machinery. A person opposed to increased industrialization of new technology. Resistance constituted the beginnings of a working class rebellion against the abuses of industrial capitalism. Promoted worker control as a political and economic alternative to emerging laissez- faire liberalism. Expression of power in the absence of unions. Challenged conception of social progress as an automatic and inevitable process determined by market forces. Traditional values of family, community, and economics displaced by market mechanisms. Journeymen organizing against the master craftsmen and industrialists. Emphasis on material improvements, craft pride and respectability, carving out secure place within capitalist system. Reform oriented: bigger piece of the pie .
