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> Depite the "American Exceptionalism" arguement that portray US workers as
> less socialist-minded or class conscious than European workers, there is a
> rather militant strain in the US that dismissed the "co-determination" of
> Europe and company unionism of Japan as a sell-out of class principles. It
> was only when US workers got their asses handed to them in the 1970s while
> benefits seemed to hold on in Europe and Japan that the American version of
> labor relations was so denigrated.
Maybe also involved here is the much-talked about 'populist' opposition to bigness (including big business)?
Certainly exported American culture likes to portray Americans as not letting anyone tell them what to - in fact, 'audacity' is probably the most virtuous virtue in many Hollywood 'rebel' films.
Am I seeing Hollywood, rather than real Americans, or is there something here?
Peter -- Peter van Heusden : pvanheus at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk : PGP key available Criticism has torn up the imaginary flowers from the chain not so that man shall wear the unadorned, bleak chain but so that he will shake off the chain and pluck the living flower. - Karl Marx
NOTE: I do not speak for the HGMP or the MRC.