Union leaders further cemented that control over the workforce by pushing through generous pension plans that discouraged workers from quitting those jobs when they could, meaning labor leaders became the controller of wildcat strikes for management. He makes the claim that Taft-Hartley actually had the opposite effect that its conservative crafters had (who assumed workers were being controlled by demagogueic labor leaders) and ended up helping centralize unions into the hands of labor administration at the cost of lively rank and fileism of the 1930s-47, that by the 1950s would see union meeting attendance plummet. Lipsitz argued that eventually these strikes resulted in huge income gains but came at the cost of labor leaders giving up on the aim of worker democracy at the job site, trading income gains for complete management control, as opposed to social democratic setups. It looks at wildcat strikes throughout the war and beyond that eventually broke out into the mass strikes across the nation. Lipsitz argued that eventually these strikes resulted in huge income gains but came at the cost of labor leaders giving up on the aim of worker democracy at the job site, trading income gains for complete This book looks at both the rank and file labor movement of the 1940s and how working class culture was eventually transformed into mass culture by the end of the decade. This book looks at both the rank and file labor movement of the 1940s and how working class culture was eventually transformed into mass culture by the end of the decade.
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