Remember when there was talk about the work week creeping DOWN to thirty hours a week?
It was at a time when /employees/ had an effective weapon against corporate exploitation. It was at a time when education was valued, and there was genuine concern that we would educate ourselves out of a ready supply of /unskilled/ labor for the unpalatable jobs that still have to get done. And it was at a time when inflation wasn't on the very CUSP of becoming hyperinflation, as it did in Germany after WW1. I'm finding far, far too many parallels in our modern America to that particular powder keg.
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dancing_serpent
work week
Date: 2014-07-25 01:53 pm (UTC)It was at a time when /employees/ had an effective weapon against corporate exploitation. It was at a time when education was valued, and there was genuine concern that we would educate ourselves out of a ready supply of /unskilled/ labor for the unpalatable jobs that still have to get done. And it was at a time when inflation wasn't on the very CUSP of becoming hyperinflation, as it did in Germany after WW1. I'm finding far, far too many parallels in our modern America to that particular powder keg.