Labor-compression strategies of production were already compounding the very declines they aimed to fix

Evidence

Firms and governments have responded to these factors by attempting to intensify the process of capitalist production: with attacks on unions, ruthless efficiency standards, expansion of temporary labor and benefit-less subcontracting, as well as large-scale outsourcing of industry and increases in automation. Nevertheless, some of these very strategies were already contributing to the aforementioned declines (globalization of manufacturing meant plateauing world-market consumer demand; fewer wage gains and worker protections meant declining domestic consumer demand), and as a result, successes there have been minimal. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 52