In his tenth research study for C4SS, Kevin Carson explains that the state’s labor regulations, far from promoting workers’ bargaining rights, have hindered them. Carson then points the way toward a future of labor radicalism aligned with free market anarchism. DOWNLOAD: Labor Struggle: A Free Market Model, by Kevin Carson
"One can hardly go to Cato or Mises.Org on any given day without stumbling across an article lionizing the employer’s right to extract maximum effort in return for minimum pay, if he can get away with it."
The Virtue of Selfishness for me, but not for thee!
Looks like an excerpt from "No Logo" might be missing from page 44.
Good catch, Adrian. I wound up including the Klein material elsewhere, but forgot to take out the placeholder.
Typo on page 9 "…their often deliberate ceremonial…"
Terrific piece! Just a couple of quick notes:
a) In footnote 185 you say "The original exchange between Knapp and Pacificus has disappeared, unfortunately." But it's happily still around in Waybackland:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050217062810/www.lib…
http://web.archive.org/web/20050404003306/http://…
b) For those of us who printed it out to read it, page numbers would be helpful.
Oh, I just discovered I didn't need Waybackland. They're available here also:
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=752 http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=753
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You can hardly get more perspective-revolutionizing than this.
The common misconception is that labour and the state are natural allies against corporate power. Kevins argument is that the *modern* union is a houebroken little pet of the corporate state, and collective bargaining/the formal strike as instruments of labour discipline are one of Kevins great insights here. I'm glad to see him take on some of the sacred cows of the so-called (state-aligned) "labour movement".
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I really don't understand why Chomsky is more famous than Kevin Carson. This is so great.
Kevin -
I’ve been told that it’s Terence Powderly, not Clarence.
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Fantastic essay, providing a rich and nuanced perspective as usual. But, I do have to say your wanton comment: "Good luck, Jack, but I don't think you're going to find mentally retarded workers who can type very well, much less run a computer" displays a considerable lack of your usual depth of analysis. I'm not the sort of person who gets offended by the use of the word retarded, but your generalization of retarded people is not only inaccurate but is a bit of a non-sequitur, not contributing much of anything to your argument.
Certainly mentally disabled people are shafted by the corporate welfare state as well. They constitute a valuable part of the workforce and I'm not sure why the disabled worker is not seen as an ally of the /regular/ worker. So much for solidarity, eh?
More accurately I should say your inclusion of that statement was unnecessary, as they aren't directly your words, but a quotation.
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The footnote on page 5 led me to an absolutely brilliant collection of quotes from Karl Hess. The man was a genius.
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