We Can’t Foreclose Grubbing Analysis

In logistics, we can still copy much of the 1930’s targeted organizing strategies, but we need a more sophisticated understanding of distributional relations and technologies. The death of chokepoint analysis has been greatly exaggerated.

In a recent Substack post, Eric Blanc argues that increasing decentralization and downsizing trends in workplaces and in residential life mean that “we can’t copy 1930s union targeting strategies.”

US labor’s big breakthrough in the 1930s was rooted in a centralized political economy far different from our own. Industries tended to be clustered in a rela…