Though the unions evolved from guild/trade union based to general mass organizing, like the British, they never quite mentally came to terms with the vast gap between 1830s artisan tech and 1930s mass tech. No wonder in 2020, dregs of unions are a humanities/liberal arts cause.
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Kaiser dies in 1967 at 85. Outlived Knudsen by 19y. Much of his industrial legacy in heavy industry got outsourced or unionized away. That’s why today we know the name primarily as an employee healthcare firm. His legacy was decent non-union employee treatment I guess.
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Okay done. This book was fun and honest on economic and engineering side, but a bit lightweight and hagiographic/demonizing on the human side. Despite my strong sympathies I’d give it only a qualified “good enough for topic, not great; needs ideological caveats” recommendation.
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My takeaway in that front is... not optimistic. The US lacks the kind of economic guts that allowed this story to happen. Outside of parts of Silicon Valkey tech economy this spirit is basically missing. And SV does not dominate the YS as strongly as Detroit etc did in 1940s.
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Also an equally worrisome trio of red, blue, and green new-deal crowds is at work today, pushing the exact same sorts of bad thinking as in the 1930s, requiring the same kind of protection/interference to allow a recovery.
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Green New Deal: bad climate thinking inside huge big tent sjw bullshit and MMT package Red New Deal: Profiteering gangsterism under maga pretending 1950s rewind is possible. Blue New Deal: keep protecting financialization and unproductive predatory Wall Street denture elites
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A Freedom’s New Forge pretty much *has* to come out of Silicon Valley since there are no other candidate golden geese. But trends there are not promising either except for isolated pockets.
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