Control over hiring halls was essential to breaking the employers’ choke hold

Evidence

Things came to a head when the Industrial Association would not accept the demand for a union-run hiring hall for longshoremen. This was a sticking point, because hiring halls would determine who was hired, and if they weren’t run by the union, the political choke hold of the shape-up would go essentially unchanged and strikers would suffer retribution. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 287

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Union protections gave workers control over time that capital previously dictated — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 309; Confinement creates a labor monopoly that lets the contractor set wages — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 211; Corporate funders now seek direct control over university faculty hiring. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 698 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Union protections gave workers control over time that capital previously dictated — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 309; Confinement creates a labor monopoly that lets the contractor set wages — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 211; Corporate funders now seek direct control over university faculty hiring. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 698 (+3 more)