Trade unions mirror society in conflict between collectivism and individualism.

From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: August 1, 1987| Author: Kessler-Harris, Alice | Copyright information

Trade unions mirror society in conflict between collectivism and individualism

Two competing ideas run through the labor movement, as they have run through the American past. The first is the notion of community--the sense that liberty is nurtured in an informal political environment where the voluntary and collective enterprise of people with common interests contributes to the solution of problems. Best characterized by the town meeting, collective solutions are echoed...

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