LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Producerism, Canadian Labour Congress, Consumerism
27 Oct 2016
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Craft unions and the afl part 1: vs. producerism. Mixed impact of boom: trades & labour congress, berlin, 1902. More people are working in manufacturing than they ever have (still in industrial field of work) Good news for craft workers more jobs. Expansion of industries and factories (making more jobs) Taylorism attacks the skilled workers: assembly lines undermining the workers(cid:495) skills. Gompers(cid:495) believes that main leverage workers have skills. Gompers(cid:495) says (cid:494)we are losing our independence(cid:495) Gompers(cid:495) just focusing on consumerism, wages, benefits. Changed happened in the justification of unions: more to the business union model, turning away from producerism. No more small shops we aren(cid:495)t producers anymore. Thus consumer will lose : gompers(cid:495) says on social level, (cid:494)poor(cid:495) society (cid:498)go to poor society if you want cheap goods(cid:499) Longer term more prosperity society make little money but cheap goods. If we raise wages prices of goods will go up. Need more organizing: more organizing b/c of growth.
