The establishment of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the bureaucracy of the older national industries--so different in their original intentions and commitments--are now alike in many of the worst ways. Both are slow to adapt to changing conditions, out of touch with the people they are supposed to serve, wary of innovation and inflexible in management and ideology.
Big labor's interest in modernization had been virtually invisible until last month, when an A.F.L.-C.I.O. committee ...
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