Labor Relations 3rd Edition by John Budd

Exercise 5

Violence-by companies and their agents, by unions and their workers, by governments and their soldiers-is a recurring theme in U.S. labor history. To Mother Jones this violence "means that the workers would rather die fighting to protect their women and children than to die in death-trap mines producing more wealth for the Rockefellers to use in crushing their children." Do you agree? Develop other explanations or interpretations. Try to construct alternatives in which unions or workers are responsible, companies are responsible, and the government or the system is responsible.