LABRST 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: New Social Movements, Social Movement Unionism, Neoliberalism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 2A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

Unions were no longer the vehicle towards change and the voice of the little guy in the 1950"s. An inherent limit in the wagner model under the model they"re only looking at wages and benefits. Alienation is happening (work is being sped up, broken down tasks even more, workers are getting more and more unhappy) Wagner model does not address these issues. New left intellectual phenomena where you get a wave of new writers who come in from the left. Come from the late 1950"s and early 1960"s who really start to attack unions quite aggressively. For them, unions are apart of the establishment (bureaucratized) they"ve been sold out to the employers. Economy was good during the 1960"s the basic things in the wagner model are still doing well in the unions (benefits are going up, wages are going up, etc) The economy"s good, but this isn"t what society should be out. New left believed we should want more.