[DEBATE] : Importing "Precarity"

[Dominic Tweedie]

Where is the evidence that workers demanded works councils?

It's a flat-out lie, my dear.


Domza "Captain Swing" VC



2008/6/17 Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Dominic Tweedie
> <dominic.tweedie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mondism is a word to conjure with.
> >
> > In Mondism, who is conquered and who the conqueror?
> >
> > Its supposed to be a "win-win", but by your own account, Yoshie, it blew
> > away in the very next cold class-war wind.
> >
> > There's no victory for the workers in works councils.
> >
> > Forget it.
> >
> > I speak from experience of the last knockings of British Mondism in the
> > 1970s, when I was a shop steward in London Transport.
> >
> > Mondism, a sickly plant in Britain even in its first pre-war flush, was
> not
> > won by the working classes of the defeated powers in 1945 but imposed
> upon
> > them with vicious force.
> >
> > Whoever this Andrew Gordon is, he knows diddley-squat about working-class
> > history.
>
> The job of labor historians like Andrew Gordon is not necessarily to
> say what workers should have demanded but first of all to document
> what workers did demand, how they got what they got, how they lost
> what they lost.
>
> Yoshie
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