Our Right to Strike
Capitalism guarantees bosses the power to exploit – our only defence is the right to strike back effectively.
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Alex Gourevitch is an associate professor of political science at Brown University and the author of From Slavery To the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century.
Capitalism guarantees bosses the power to exploit – our only defence is the right to strike back effectively.
It is impossible to understand the history of capitalism – or the development of its hegemon, the United States – without acknowledging the role of slavery in its construction.