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For a while, robust social benefits and strong labor unions coincided with high profits and rapid growth, and so labor and capital enjoyed an uneasy peace. But that very prosperity led to a situation where workers were empowered to demand more and more power over the conditions of work, and so the bosses began to fear that both profits and control over the workplace were slipping out of their hands. In a capitalist society, this is an avoidable tension: the boss needs the worker but is also terrified of his or her potential power.
The famous 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which declared segregated schools unconstitutional, is often perceived as the starting point for this movement. In reality, it began much earlier. From the 1920s to the 1950s, large desegregation battles took place in northern suburbs and industrial towns in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, and Michigan.
Education and Capitalism
Sarah Knopp;Jeff Bale
‘one of the dangers which threatens democracy is the totalitarian attempt to pass beyond the constitutive character of antagonism and deny plurality in order to restore unity.’
The Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance
Stephen Elstub and Oliver Escobar
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