Social Security's implicit promise:
Fordism: mass production brings
Fordism turns out to need the government.
Labor's advantages in 1936
John Lewis on his demands
The right to organize; shorter hours, the prohibition of child labor, equal pay for men and women doing substantially the same kind of work, [and] that all who are able to work and willing shall have the opportunity for steady employment.
Not a living wage! We ask more than that. We demand for the unskilled workers a wage that will enable them to maintain themselves and their families in health and modern comfort, to purchase their own homes, to enmable their children to obtain at least a high-school education and to provide against sickness, disability, and death.
The First World War was a test of country's political resilience.
The Second World War was determined by economic ability to win. so ended up being about economic
Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" in the State of the Union, 1941:
The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.