Wartime union power positioned workers to demand social rights after armistice.

Evidence

Th e workers— whose unions’ contractual power had increased during the war— could now land heavy blows by demanding more social rights and diff erent organizations of production. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 217

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: 1940s drafters of the UDHR saw social rights as a working-class victory — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 149; Postwar social tension forced state officials to concede citizenship rights to workers; Workers’ wartime indispensability empowered postwar demands to transform the economic system — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 174 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Workers’ wartime indispensability empowered postwar demands to transform the economic system #corroborates (0.90) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 174
• Postwar workers rejected labor as a commodity and demanded democratic control of production #expands (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 185
• Postwar strikes were political demands for workers’ self-government, not mere wage disputes #expands (0.82)
• War-induced labor scarcity forced state intervention to discipline workers #contradicts (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 171
• Postwar social tension forced state officials to concede citizenship rights to workers #complicates (0.78)