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Friday's Labor Folklore
Con Carbon, Minstrel of the Mine Patch
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Whips and Fear
Many whips are inside men, who do not know how they got there, or indeed that they are there. In the movement from authority to manipulation, power shifts from the visible to the invisible, from the known to the anonymous. Exploitation becomes less material and more psychological.
-- C. Wright Mills
White Collar
1951
Fear is the number one obstacle for workers who support unions. It starts out as fear of retaliation, then becomes fear of losing what they have, fear of the union as described by management, fear of strikes and plant closings and finally, it just becomes fear of change.
-- Allison Porter AFL-CIO
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If Mother Jones was a playing card
what card would she be?
The Queen of Hearts!
Amalgamated Meat Cutters
1950s
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Solidarity Forever
like you never heard it sung before
by
Lily Eskelsen Garcia
New President of the National Education Association (NEA)
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