Austerity regimes aim to break organized labor

Evidence

A major aim of all austerity regimes is to break the back of organized labor, to neuter it and render it incapable of protecting workers. — Gary Mongiovi, Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy…, 83

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Central banks trigger recessions to enforce workers’ acceptance of wage labor. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 39; Austerity’s core purpose is to deepen workers’ dependence on wage labor — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 145; Austerity is state intervention that transfers resources from workers to capital — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 195 (+15 more)

Related

• Austerity masquerades as apolitical science while bending workers to capital’s will (similarity 0.91)
• Austerity’s core purpose is to deepen workers’ dependence on wage labor (similarity 0.91)
• Austerity structurally dismantled the workers’ movement and its economic alternatives (similarity 0.89)
• Austerity is state intervention that transfers resources from workers to capital (similarity 0.89)
• Austerity policies function to silence working class economic demands (similarity 0.88)
• Austerity-driven unemployment stripped organized labor of its political power in Britain. (similarity 0.88)
• Unemployment functioned as a deliberate political weapon to weaken labor (similarity 0.87)
• Central banks trigger recessions to enforce workers’ acceptance of wage labor. (similarity 0.86)
• Austerity operates as capitalism’s counteroffensive against democratically empowered labor. (similarity 0.85)
• Austere economies structurally disempower those who would protest austerity (similarity 0.85)
• Austerity is a counteroffensive that shifts resources from workers to investors. (similarity 0.85)
• Austerity has three forms that jointly transfer wealth to creditors and employers. (similarity 0.84)
• Austerity comprises fiscal, monetary, and industrial policies that jointly repress wages to benefit capital. (similarity 0.84)
• International economists forged austerity as a deliberate antiworker project (similarity 0.84)
• Monetary austerity deliberately induced recession to discipline workers. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Monetary austerity deliberately induced recession to discipline workers. #corroborates (0.92) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 154
• Monetary austerity deliberately manufactures unemployment to compress wages. #corroborates (0.90) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 284
• Austerity was capitalism’s manufactured response to worker challenges #expands (0.88) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 585
• Austerity disciplines workers within both colonizer and colonized nations alike #expands (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 339