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    Richard Florida‏Verified account @Richard_Florida 17 Apr 2020

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    1. A short thread on why a reinvigorated labor movement - of factory workers & front-line workers is essential - essential to the future of the economy.https://twitter.com/greenhousenyt/status/1251137037371158530 …

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    The Untold Story of the Biggest Outbreak of Covid-19--The Smithfield pork plant with over 700 cases The workers requested masks & other PPE, temperature-checking & sanitation stations. "Management dragged their feet, didn't take worker demands seriously" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52311877 …
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      2. Richard Florida‏Verified account @Richard_Florida 17 Apr 2020

        2. Read this closely: The workers are demanding masks, PPE, sanitation stations, & temperature checks. The workers. Not the managers. Not the capitalists.

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      3. Richard Florida‏Verified account @Richard_Florida 17 Apr 2020

        3. It's like a scene from Upton Sinclair's Jungle. Like a scene from Blake's Satanic Mills ...

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      4. Richard Florida‏Verified account @Richard_Florida 17 Apr 2020

        4. And not just the factory workers. Front-line service workers - warehouse workers, delivery workers, grocery clerks - all demanding the same protections, and decent living wages of course.

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      5. Richard Florida‏Verified account @Richard_Florida 17 Apr 2020

        5. THE WORKERS DEMANDED … This is right thing to do, it is the just thing to do. But it is also required to keep the economy functioning and up and running.

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      6. Richard Florida‏Verified account @Richard_Florida 17 Apr 2020

        6. THE WORKERS DEMANDED … This is not just about social justice or even safe working conditions. This is required to keep the economy up and running.

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      7. Richard Florida‏Verified account @Richard_Florida 17 Apr 2020

        7. Our capitalists are so short-term oriented that they don’t think about their own most important asset, their workers. They continue to treat workers as disposable. But they're not.

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      8. Richard Florida‏Verified account @Richard_Florida 17 Apr 2020

        8. This may be an additional reason why Japan, Tokyo & Asian nations mobilized more effectively initially ...

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      9. Richard Florida‏Verified account @Richard_Florida 17 Apr 2020

        9. Yes mask-wearing is more common. But early on in my academic career I studied so-called Japanese manufacturing management.

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      10. Richard Florida‏Verified account @Richard_Florida 17 Apr 2020

        10. A big difference with the West, so-called Fordism, is that the Japanese social compact and its manufacturing model evolved to view workers as a key asset to be protected & invested in.

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      11. Richard Florida‏Verified account @Richard_Florida 17 Apr 2020

        11. It is workers' knowledge & intelligence at the point of production that powers the system. Workers design work & innovation on the production process.

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      12. Richard Florida‏Verified account @Richard_Florida 17 Apr 2020

        12. Now it is frontline workers telling American management they need PPE & other things to do their jobs & for their factories, delivery systems, & grocery stores to operate safely.

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      13. Richard Florida‏Verified account @Richard_Florida 17 Apr 2020

        13. Capitalists shirk their responsibility: workers tell us exactly what is needed for the system to function.

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      14. Richard Florida‏Verified account @Richard_Florida 17 Apr 2020

        14. A broader, revitalized labor movement - around health, safety, better working conditions, & family-supporting wages for all service & manufacturing workers - is in the interest of a more resilient economy, and something we all need to get behind.

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