Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control

The debacle of the air controllers' strike and the growing difficulties unions are having in attracting new members (and holding onto old ones — decertification elections have increased for the last 10 years) are two phenomena that could be used to depict American workers as quite tamed overall and adjusted to their lot. But such a picture of conservative stasis would be quite unfaithful to the reality of the work culture, which is now so un-tamed as to be evoking unprecedented attention and countermeasures. Before tackling the subject of anti-work, a few words on the status of business might be in order

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