The corporate hierarchy has long tried to diminish labor activism in the United States by insisting that strikes and other workplace agitations have never had broad support or impact because they are fundamentally un-American. The corporatists cluck that, from the get-go, the U.S. cultural zeitgeist has been grounded in a veneration of individualism, an appreciation for the financial blessings of the corporate order, and a rejection of collectivism.

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