[lbo-talk] HNN review of Fitch

Mark Rickling mrickling at gmail.com
Thu Mar 23 13:38:13 PST 2006


On 3/23/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [too bad we don't have John Lacny around to fulminate about this
> rather positive review]

[ . . . ]


> By design Fitch did not write a "balanced" labor history, but in
> concentrating on pervasive corruption, "labor's forgotten past," he
> uses a single factor in the sorry state of today's unionism to
> explain what has happened. In two paragraphs he dismisses
> globalization and other "universal trends," casually alleging the
> relative weakness of American unions while stressing their
> corruption. As observers have long noticed, America is exceptional in
> several ways, not only in the structure and corruptness of its unions.

I read this paragraph as stating Fitch's singular focus on corruption is rather myopic. A criticism I believe others have made on this list.



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