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Let's Get to Work
Forman, Erik
http://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/labor-unions-workers-salts-students-organizing/Date Written: 2017-02-07 Publisher: Jacobin Year Published: 2017 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20671 Instead of asking "What is to be done?", we could start with a different question: "What should I do?" As it turns out, the right-wing hecklers we've all encountered are half right: we should get jobs. And then we should do what we tell workers to do all the time: organize our workplaces. This tactic has a name and a history. It's called "salting." Salting has deep roots in the history of the labour movement and the Left. Subject Headings |