announcement of ford assembly plant closings reminds me this is the 4th straight month [links: 1, 2, 3] i've said something about how detroit fools and manipulates its workers with fear of job loss.
the fact that they've been able to do it so easily and so effectively for so many decades tells us at least 2 things:
1) workers have for a long time lacked confidence in their own resilience and in the US economy's ability to keep them employed and create new jobs;
2) if they can get away with it with a group as savvy as UAW members, they can do it to anybody.
point #1 comes from:
• actual direct or indirect experience of insecurity, such as recessions, inflation (especially in cost of critical necessities like food, health, fuel, housing, &c), big layoffs, high interest rates, falling real wages, &c, and
• corporate strategies that build on and promote those feelings of insecurity, often by using racism or other phobias to divide workers against each other.
point #2 is a result of americans' failure to learn to think critically and strategically.
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