Link Wray, Shawnee American, creator of one of rock and roll’s great sounds, one of the coolest cats to ever prowl a stage. What we consider labor, and certainly Labor with a capital “L”, is largely a creation of the Industrial Era. From the beginning, it was a doomed social and political concept, most especially in regards to democracy. Categorizing labor demanded the separate classification of management. With such a division, labor, no matter how well organized, would always be subservient. Due to its innate secondary status, at best Labor became an insufficient political force in defining the Industrial Era. As simply another segment of an increasingly specialized society, segregated labor became not a political strength, but a weakness. In 1947, at the height of organized Labor's US political power, the wonderful information theorist Norbert Wiener astutely and acutely defined Labor's existential faults. Wiener writes,
R.I.P Labor
R.I.P Labor
R.I.P Labor
Link Wray, Shawnee American, creator of one of rock and roll’s great sounds, one of the coolest cats to ever prowl a stage. What we consider labor, and certainly Labor with a capital “L”, is largely a creation of the Industrial Era. From the beginning, it was a doomed social and political concept, most especially in regards to democracy. Categorizing labor demanded the separate classification of management. With such a division, labor, no matter how well organized, would always be subservient. Due to its innate secondary status, at best Labor became an insufficient political force in defining the Industrial Era. As simply another segment of an increasingly specialized society, segregated labor became not a political strength, but a weakness. In 1947, at the height of organized Labor's US political power, the wonderful information theorist Norbert Wiener astutely and acutely defined Labor's existential faults. Wiener writes,