{"id":512,"date":"2009-07-31T17:07:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T22:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2009-07-31T17:10:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T22:10:48","slug":"industrial-rote-labor-not-so-great-for-the-intellect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/industrial-rote-labor-not-so-great-for-the-intellect\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Rote Labor Not So Great for the Intellect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My intellectual lefty friends love to bemoan the loss of high-paying blue collar jobs. I&#8217;m not so sentimental about those losses. Given unions&#8217; attitudes about everything but their own immediate pay (i.e., their anti-environmental record, failure to protect workers at the bottom of the income ladder, resistance to innovation, etc.), I&#8217;ve always questioned the relevance of rote labor as an end in itself. <a href=\"&lt;http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20090731\/COL10\/907310368\/Time-to-break-cycle-of-no-skills--no-jobs&gt;http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20090731\/COL10\/907310368\/Time-to-break-cycle-of-no-skills--no-jobs\">This article <\/a>in today&#8217;s Detroit Free Press exposes a dirty little secret about how big unions and big industry colluded to keep their workforce as dumb as they could be.<\/p>\n<p>Now we know why Michigan has been in a multi-decade depression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How big unions &#038; big industry colluded to keep the workforce as dumb as they could be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4],"tags":[14,282,1320,285,281,283,284,280],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perspectives-on-american-gluttony","category-society","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-free-press","tag-environment","tag-illiteracy","tag-industry","tag-innovation","tag-rote-labor","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}