A brief history of Labour Day (at least in the U.S. and Canada) and a discussion with Jeannette Wicks-Lim of Political Economy Research Institute about the pre-crisis forecast from the Department of Labor showing a U.S. economy structurally inclined toward low wages.
Meanwhile, “conservatives” continue to rail against “Big Labour” while enthusiastically embracing the declining influence of unions, continued erosion of workers’ rights, the stagnation in wages over the past 30 years despite rising cost of living, the hollowing out of the North American manufacturing sector (and its replacement with shitty part-time jobs without benefits), not to mention the ever-widening income gap…
