Aaron Thayer

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According to company management, the real problem was that employees were in denial; the union “still thinks it is 1950,” declared the CEO of Caterpillar.9 Those aggrieved Midwesterners simply hadn’t understood how the world had changed, how savage the competitive environment had become—and how ridiculous it was now for working-class people to expect to live middle-class lives. (It’s something CEOs still say, incidentally, about anyone who expects to be paid decently.)
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
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