Industrial Workers of the World

What an erudite guy.  He wrote a bit and 'miek' has published FW Glynn's observations on "industrial efficiency". IE?   Well, you know like getting the most surplus-value out of your employees; I mean, that's whatFW Glynn puts forward as the, view from the "Big End", aka the perceived interests of the capitalist class.  But what about the workers' view?  Glynn's answer is a class conscious one.  The more efficient we are, the more we produce for the employing class to sell and thereby, to make profit.  He is clear about there being NO wage-increase connection with productivity.  In fact, he demonstrates that at the same time that real wages, in general, remained relatively the same, productivity skyrocketed.  That this FW was writing back in 1915 matters only in the sense that productivity nowadays has  blasted out of the solar system into intergalactic space while wages, in terms of constant dollar measurement i.e. adjusted for inflation, have gone up little, if at all.

I'm glad FW Glynn was around.  I hope others get a chance to get acqainted with his written legacy and maybe, try to continue it in their own Wobbly ways.

In injury to one is an injury to all!