The story is in line with what scholar Elizabeth Anderson has described as bosses rule in the American workplace. The American workplace is an authoritarian dictatorship all basic democratic rights go out the window, she says. Time is a weapon of the rich and white collar; it's almost worse than the lack of any real penalty for workers who fail to unionize.
Featuring Daisy Pitkin on her book On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union, a memoir that powerfully captures the drama of an organizing drive—and so much more.
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