Working Class #6-2023: The Worst Trade EVER in Baseball Connection to De-industrialization

Concepts We Need to Know About “The System”

• Other Economic Systems
• Rise of Capitalist System
• Owner and Worker Tied Together but Diametrically Opposed
• How Can Laws Demand We Go to Work?
• Working in the System
• Why the Culture of Buying Things We Don’t Need?

Why Unions are Important for Worker Quality of Life?

• National Recovery Act Program – The First FDR Economic Program
• Read “Teamster Rebellion” by Farrell Dobbs (1972) – This book is a master class for organized workers on how to conduct and operate a long strike and win over the local population to the goals of the strike. Owners and media will always vilify workers when we go on strike. Free copy to borrow at:

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4771799M/Teamster_rebellion.

• 8 Hour Workday Rally Cry
• Who Wants to Be an Owner?

The Worst Trade EVER In Baseball Connection to the Deindustrialization of Baltimore

• In this section I reference my essay: “West Baltimore Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Cooperative.” If interested, you are welcomed to read it and watch its embedded videos at:

https://open.substack.com/pub/karenwilson/p/west-baltimore-pharmaceutical-workers?r=c32w9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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PHOTO

My Parent’s Wedding Party: My parents were married at my mom’s grandmother’s home. Her grandmother raised her because my mom’s mom, my grandmother, went through a series of bad relationships at the time my mom was a young girl. My great-grandmother took her and her brother in and raised them. My great-grandmother washed laundry for white people in a metal tub with a scrub board and a manual wringer she caught her hand in that damaged it.

In this picture are some of the witnesses to my parent’s marriage. These are my great aunts and second cousins. They are all deceased. One was a laundress like her mother (my great-grandmother). One died in a state mental institution – I never met her. Also, some were mothers.

One was lucky enough to be a stay-at-home mom because her husband worked for the City of New Orleans Post Office. She was able to stay home and raise her four girls because her husband’s unionized job came with worker rights and collective bargaining that gave her family a middle class income. Her husband’s union was a rank & file member of the United Federation of Postal Clerks, one of the several forerunners of the current American Postal Workers Union created in 1971.