Cory Doctorow on Nostr: But even then, bosses who were honest with themselves would admit that they preferred ...
But even then, bosses who were honest with themselves would admit that they preferred life under the NLRA to life before it. Remember: labor militancy *created* the NLRA, not the other way around. When workers didn't have the legal means to organize, they organized by *illegal* means. When they didn't have legal ways of striking, they struck *illegally*. The result was pitched battles, even bloodbaths, as cops beat and even killed labor organizers.
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