The American Ruling Class
Happy Labor Day to everyone at home to read this because they are not busy laboring. I had a brief break between shifts on my double and wanted to post a few thoughts on the holiday. Perhaps no other American holiday has less remembrance of its origin. Maybe it is the Labor Day double, but the holiday has me thinking. It is time that we remember labor on Labor Day.
Labor day is meant to serve as a celebration of the benefits organized labor has brought to the American worker. I know mentioning the word “union” in any context related to restaurants is enough to put me on some sort of McCarthy era watch list. I am not going to write about unionization of restaurants. Maybe next labor day. This labor day I would rather look at the plight of the worker be they organized or disorganized.
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Sep 07, 2010 @ 08:09:03
Her philosophy of philanthropy should be taught in every classroom in America and then her supposition of strikes and demands by the working class poor would finally happen [as it should.] I couldn’t agree with her more.
I read her book when it first came out, and she is a very talented author [a Pulitzer no less] but I wouldn’t exactly call it ground breaking.
People in minimum wage jobs have known about her experiences for years. It just took someone to write about it. Too bad it didn’t make much of a difference.
Thanks for sharing.
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Sep 09, 2010 @ 12:20:15