Unions for Initial Participants, 2012 publication by David Cogswell, ISBN 9781934389775 Due to the fact that businesses believed that it was the appropriate thing to do, the forty-hour work week, pensions, and safe working conditions eventually became a part of the employment landscape in the United States. To the contrary, such things came into being as a result of strikes and agitation carried out by labor unions. Despite the significant decrease in the number of people who are unionized over the course of the last half century, why are unions purportedly the cause of the financial issues that the United States is experiencing? There is nothing that the American corporate elite, sometimes known as the one percent, would want to get in the way of their aim to maximize profits. When it comes to the stock price, employee pay are considered an expenditure that has to be cut as much as feasible in order to achieve the desired effect. It is possible for a person to believe that countries such as Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia are the global leaders (for want of a better phrase) in the use of propaganda on their own population. The United States of America is, by a significant margin, the leader of the globe. Free market capitalism is taught to people to be synonymous with all that is positive about the United States of America. Any kind of resistance to the dominance of corporations, such as labor unions, is seen to be synonymous with communism, tyranny, and oppression. One of the most basic aspects of human nature is responsible for the formation of unions. When individuals get together as a group, they are able to achieve things that would not be possible for a single person to do on their own. Since the early days of the United States of America, people have gone on strike in order to demand improved working conditions. One of the most well-known episodes in the history of the union is discussed in this book. During the year 1835, children working in the silk mills in Patterson, New Jersey went on strike in order to demand an 11-hour day and a six-day work week. The Chicago Haymarket Incident, often known as the Riot or Massacre, occurred in the year 1886. The Great Railroad Strike occured in the year 1877, while the Homestead Strike occurred in the year 1892. In the 20th century, there occurs the Ludlow Massacre that took place in 1913. Recently, the book delves into the Conservative Resurgence that occurred in the 1980s, as well as the assaults on labor unions that were carried out by individuals ranging from Ronald Reagan to Scott Walker. Since the leaders of the Union are just human, it is possible that over the course of American history, they have been just as corrupt and terrible as the rest of society. Considering that this is a biased book, it is very unlikely that it is feasible to publish a book on unions that is completely non-partisan. People of all ages are still encouraged to read this book. It is recommended for individuals who have an interest in the less well-known aspects of American history, it is recommended for union members who are not familiar with their own history, and it is recommended for a portion of the explanation regarding how the United States got into the current financial mess that it is in. Dead Trees Review, the blog that Paul Lappen writes as a freelance book critic, has an emphasis on books that are self-published or published by small presses.
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