NO VOTE, NO WORK!(VOX POPULIST)

• Date: 01 December 2021
• Author: Hightower, Jim
• Published date: 01 December 2021
• Author: Hightower, Jim

The corporate hierarchy has long tried to diminish labor activism in the United States by insisting that strikes and other workplace agitations have never had broad support or impact because they are fundamentally un-American. The corporatists cluck that, from the get-go, the U.S. cultural Zeitgeist has been grounded in a veneration of individualism, an appreciation for the financial blessings of the corporate order, and a rejection of collectivism.

In a word: Hogwash! And Horsefeathers! (OK, two words, just for emphasis.) These self-serving fictionalizers seem unaware of a momentous labor event at the nation's very start: the Jamestown craftsmen strike of 1619. Or they are aware, but don't want you to be.

Thus--shhhh--you won't find it mentioned in college textbooks or TV documentaries, or even on any of the many markers at the Jamestown Settlement's living history museum in...