Democracy for the few by michael parenti

In the years that followed, union membership increased dramatically and workers across the country 7 made wage gains amounting to billions of dollars. In 1935, working people won a major victory when a federal law was passed setting up the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) as an independent federal agency intended to protect labors right to collective bargaining. And few if any labor leaders are given top decision-making posts in government.Д¬orporate spokespersons tell us that labor unions are corrupt, unpopular, harmful, and too powerful. Total corporate profits are hundreds of times greater than the total income of labor unions. State security agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have a history of spying on unions, sometimes in cooperation with management.11 While labor can sometimes play an effective role in support of social legislation, it usually cannot match business in material resources and political muscle. Historically, the capitalist state's raison d'etre is to secure the interests of the wealthy propertied class.

In reality, government has historically been friendly to business and hostile to labor. Some political science textbooks juxtapose вЂњBig LaborвЂќ with Big Business, thereby leaving the impression that political power is pluralistically distributed among countervailing forces. Tags: Elite (Social sciences) - United States, Political participation - United States, United States - Politics and government - 1945-1989, United States - Politics and government - 1989.

Democracy for the few by michael parenti