AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT

American Labor Movement

American Labor Movement

Introduction

The American Revolution is usually identified with the co-processes with the generic name of "bourgeois-democratic revolutions." It was driven by a hegemonic national bourgeoisie and consolidation was achieved through the representative establishment of a democratic system. 

Thesis Statement

This study highlights many issues related to American Labor Issues and gives a broad analysis of the effects of Offshoring on American labor market.

Discussion

The European revolutions sprang from a confrontation between a rising bourgeoisie, which has come to control an important mass and productive means of dying feudal aristocracy. However, the old mode of production and political power in U.S, the feudal aristocracy and that even as waste did not exist. The American developed process of "national liberation capitalist" was against the hegemonic English capitalism, which prevented their full development (Watts, 2001). This is a common interest to the commercial bourgeoisie, financial and industrial incipiently north and landowners. It allows the composition of a dominant core homogeneous, whose ideology is identified with the newly independent nation. At the same time it permits the numerical predominance of small landowners, industries and crafts. It created conditions for extending the dominant alliance political level.

In this sense, the American Revolution is a more "pure" revolutionary bourgeois democratic institution: the bourgeoisie in Europe generally opposed the universal mind spread of democratic forms, which had to be imposed on long historical processes. In the United States the extent of these rights was work of the ruling bourgeoisie, hence the birth and rapid consolidation is at once a democratic and conservative system: firstly, there were only weak demonstrations in favor of an authoritarian or monarchical. Secondly, the democratic ideology went hand in hand with the protection of property rights and the sacredness of private initiative as symbols of freedom and factors of social development (Watts, 2001).

This exceptional condition of the American state has two particular effects in the development of class consciousness. First, the views of evolution of the production process are generating, and strengthening in periods following the unifying image of the "state" and "nation." The arrival of new contingents of immigrants is far from diminishing the unifying role, making it even more crucial to the extent of which ethnic, cultural, social and religious discrimination are factors in the workplace and the community. The “new Americans” tends to see the political system as their only guarantee of equality, through the categories of native and immigrant, skilled worker ...