The Workerist Manifesto
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The average American private sector, non domestic, non agricultural worker employed in interstate commerce produces around $200,000 worth of goods or services per year. That same worker only makes about $35,000 a year before taxes, in a country where a family of four needs to make $100,000 a year to have a middle income standard of living and $140,000 a year to have enough left over to finance a car, buy a home, save for retirement or have money to cover emergencies. That fact should be cause for widespread labor struggle and mass anti capitalist opposition among this country’s 160 million free workers and 800,000 convict laborers, the third largest working class in the world (only India and China have more workers, and only Chinese workers outproduce their American peers) Why does that resistance not exist?
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The average American private sector worker produces about $200,000 worth of goods or services a year…. but only gets paid $35,000 in gross pre tax wages in return (in a country where you need to make $100,000 a year to support a family of 4 at a middle income standard of living). Why does this country’s 161 million strong working class continue to tolerate that? This book sets out to answer that question.
About the Author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR – Gregory A. Butler is a longtime labor activist in New York City. He got his first unionized job in February 1986, has been a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers, United Brotherhood of Carpenters, American Federation of Teachers and the International Union of Operating Engineers, was a shop steward in the UBC for 17 years and a union delegate in the IUOE for 3 years. This is his third book: his previous works were DISUNITED BROTHERHOODS …race, racketeering and the fall of the New York Construction Unions and LOST TOWERS …inside the World Trade Center cleanup both published in 2006