Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>IMHO, the main reason for the weakness of national
>labor movement in the US is the structure of the US
>society and polity - its ethnic fragmentation due to
>migrations, its localism, its machine politics, the
>relative inclusiveness of the political system
>(contrary to Europe) that could partially absorb some
>of the working class into power structures.
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You forgot the trump card: racism.
Joanna
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