>Gradual misery, killing by inches, does not seem to provoke resistance.
>In fact it is more apt to provoke frantic attempts at individual
>'solutions.' Periods of recovery are when resistance is most apt to
>bloom. After all, it was in the _late_ 30s that both the CIO & the CP
>flourished, and the '60s emerged from the long boom beginning in the
>early '50s and the "revolution of rising expectations" thereby created.
>If misery and oppression by themselves generated revolution, we would
>have achieved world socialism long ago.
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Point taken but I wasn't thinking about the increasing misery.
--I was thinking about the increasing numbers of academic tomato pickers
and what it would mean if they organized.
--I was thinking that once they organize and perceive the collective
power that gives them it would change not only how they act but what
they teach. May have already learned that if they organized as graduate
students (an increasing practice).
--I was also thinking that these sorts of working conditions might be
less and less appealing to people, thus keeping them out of graduate
schools and giving further leverage to those who are competing for
teaching jobs.
Joanna
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