The Only Effective Strike Is a Disruptive Strike
Under capitalism, property rights will always come before workers’ rights to decent pay and conditions – the only way to fight back is through strike action.
2 Articles by:
Alex Gourevitch is an associate professor of political science at Brown University and the author of From Slavery To the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century.
Under capitalism, property rights will always come before workers’ rights to decent pay and conditions – the only way to fight back is through strike action.
It is impossible to understand the history of capitalism – or the development of its hegemon, the United States – without acknowledging the role of slavery in its construction.