DOC 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Industrial Workers Of The World
24 Feb 2017
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A working class movement that shall have for its purpose the emancipation of the working-class from the bondage of capitalism. Proponent of direct action and free-speech activism (zinn, 87-88) Arrested in san diego for 1912 for free-speech violation. Similar to mlk"s letter from birmingham jail. Mentions of structural adjustments against the working class. Memories of the 1982 ilgwu strike in ny chinatown. One of the largest unions in the country. Health and welfare benefits, wages, holiday pay, vacation benefits, pension, death benefits, and childcare. Wages paid per item produced (vs. hours worked) I call the piece rate system the system of being both the slave and the slave driver. You"re the slaved because you"re doing the work. But you"re the slave driver too, because you force yourself to work faster and faster, believing that the more pieces you sow, Connections between time periods, industries, and worker populations. Regardless of when or who, everyone suffers from the system.
