I think the recent assertiveness of certain unions reflects the tight labor market. During the past few years, workers have been hard to come by. So they can demand higher wages and better treatment.
On this Sunday morning I am pondering my perception that labor unions in the United States have gained in relevancy and significance over the last few years. I am trying to pin its cause to the global COVID Pandemic, stresses to and changes in the workforce, governments’ various responses to the pandemic, inflation, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and governments’ various responses to that, human migration, and current social movements. Are there other factors that I should be considering?
While the best time to write about the history of an event may be after a little time has deepened one’s perspective, I wonder now if there are strong corollaries to the period during and after 1918?
Oh for Adam and Eve. Can the western culture live without the the first humans Genesis tells us. They have been criticized, scorned, laughed at and artistically rendered, and yet here they are popping up in so many ways. There certainly is the biology of our humanness but it is as much our culture that helps us understand our behavior. We will continue to do so. and study both. Thanks again for your fine thoughts.
Brands writes: "Human infants are born helpless and require protection and sustenance." I was discussing this once with a neighbor who's a biologist with TX Parks and Wildlife. The terms used in biology are altricial and precocial. The latter word is related, of course, to precocious, as in "Dr. Brands was a precocious boy and wrote his first presidential biography when he was only six." LOL But seriously, it seems that the higher you go up the evolutionary ladder, the more species are altricial. In other words, newborns can't make it on their own.
I think the recent assertiveness of certain unions reflects the tight labor market. During the past few years, workers have been hard to come by. So they can demand higher wages and better treatment.
On this Sunday morning I am pondering my perception that labor unions in the United States have gained in relevancy and significance over the last few years. I am trying to pin its cause to the global COVID Pandemic, stresses to and changes in the workforce, governments’ various responses to the pandemic, inflation, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and governments’ various responses to that, human migration, and current social movements. Are there other factors that I should be considering?
While the best time to write about the history of an event may be after a little time has deepened one’s perspective, I wonder now if there are strong corollaries to the period during and after 1918?
Oh for Adam and Eve. Can the western culture live without the the first humans Genesis tells us. They have been criticized, scorned, laughed at and artistically rendered, and yet here they are popping up in so many ways. There certainly is the biology of our humanness but it is as much our culture that helps us understand our behavior. We will continue to do so. and study both. Thanks again for your fine thoughts.
Brands writes: "Human infants are born helpless and require protection and sustenance." I was discussing this once with a neighbor who's a biologist with TX Parks and Wildlife. The terms used in biology are altricial and precocial. The latter word is related, of course, to precocious, as in "Dr. Brands was a precocious boy and wrote his first presidential biography when he was only six." LOL But seriously, it seems that the higher you go up the evolutionary ladder, the more species are altricial. In other words, newborns can't make it on their own.