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Originally Posted by tabs
Why sometimes Sammy you strike me as being one ignorant rednecked peckerwood mtherfker...and I mean that in a nice way...
READ YOUR GDMED HISTORY...
The stage was set for the huge rise of the MC by the Union movement and WW2. With Unions people could afford to buy the products they made as they were being paid a living wage. This rising wage tide rose ALL BOATS from the union worker to the trades man to the managerial class.
U have to remember that Unions brought in decent working conditions, but one still had to work and not be a loafing oaf...that came later...and come under the titile of work ethics and entitlments. Or you get somethin for nothin..
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Mental midgetry on Parade.
History shows that the middle class rose and came into being because technology, capital and productivity made a person's knowledge valuable enough to retain and pay him accordingly. Prior to WWII most of this country was employed as day labor. Management didn't care who was hired because one worker could easily be replaced with another. Technology and Capital changed this, Unions didn't. A trained machine operator could not be easily replaced, his labor and bargaining position improved because the cost of replacement was greater than the increase in pay to retain his labor.
If your theory was correct, then why didn't Unionization take off 1 or 2 generations earlier? The Union movement was around before the start of the 20th Century.
You are assigning causation to the Union movement that the facts do not justify. The Unions ran out in front of a parade and are claiming credit for organizing and leading it. Things just didn't happen that way.