Abstract

In “Organized Labor versus ‘The Revolt Against Work’ ” (Telos, 21), I described spontaneous opposition to an increasingly bureaucratic and collusive unionism. Greater centralization of control over workers and more institutionalized business-labor-government cooperation have made transparent unions' role as the last effective police force of wage labor.

In passing, I suggested a developing similarity in some ways to the situation in National Socialist Germany, where labor discipline was maintained via the Labor Front, the forced membership of all people in one, big national organization. This suggestion met with much predictable ridicule, though it was buried within a paragraph and mentioned but once.