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365 | Michael Lind: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America

The Realignment

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The Center Left's Opposition to a Government Ban on Variable Scheduling

I feel as if there's a whole gamut of things the government could do top down that wouldn't necessarily involve, let's say, changing this worker power dynamic. How would you respond to that? Oh, yeah, that's essentially the contemporary progressive left is technocratic and elitist. The workers of the world historically have not just an upper class educated do-gooders. They would rather have the power to negotiate deals directly with employers than to have Eleanor Roosevelt or Francis Perkins,.

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