Postwar labor unrest aimed at revolution, not just wages.

Evidence

Moreover, unrest was no longer occurring primarily as an intervention for immediate economic benefi ts. Quite the contrary: a large motivating factor was social revolution. An offi cial British memorandum of February 1919 stressed this shift : “Th e fundamental causes of labour unrest” were to be found in “the growing determination of Labour to challenge the whole existing structure of capitalist industry,” and no longer only in “special and smaller grievances which come to the surface at any particular time.” — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 375

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The SDS sustained protest awaiting a worker-borne revolution — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2655; State wartime intervention fused economic and political labor struggles. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 374; Postwar workers demanded meaning and agency in production. (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Postwar strikes were political demands for workers’ self-government, not mere wage disputes #corroborates (0.92)
• Postwar labor resistance ranged from reformist unionism to revolutionary council occupation. #expands (0.88) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 114
• Postwar workers rejected labor as a commodity and demanded democratic control of production #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 185
• Full employment would let workers challenge capitalism itself, not just wages. #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 256
• Workers’ wartime indispensability empowered postwar demands to transform the economic system #expands (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 174
• Postwar class conflict, not nation-state formation, threatened capitalism most. #complicates (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1616