Flagging growth forced all capitalist states to curb labor power

Evidence

To the degree that heightened international competltlOn under conditions of flagging growth forced all states to become more ‘entrepreneurial’ and concerned to maintain a favourable business climate, so the power of organized labour and of other social move­ ments had to be curbed. Though the politics of resistance may have varied - with tangible results, as Therborn’s (1984) comparative study of European states shows - austerity, fiscal retrenchment, and erosion of the social compromise between big labour and big govern­ ment became watchwords in every state in the advanced capitalist world. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1029

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postwar workers rejected labor as a commodity and demanded democratic control of production — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 185

Broader Connections

• Postwar workers rejected labor as a commodity and demanded democratic control of production #contradicts (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 185