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Labor's New Deal

The Agile Manager

Labor's power in America arguably peaked in the 1960s and has been on the wane since, the striking Air Traffic Controllers getting fired in the early 80s often held out as a seminal moment in labor's multi-decade decline. And, per the aforementioned statistics, labor is exercising that power. Well, labor is back.

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These can be useful exercises, certainly to the business leaders who’ve got to find their customers or compete against rivals with slimmed down cost structures. Is brick-and-mortar retail dead? One way its retail bank makes money by converting deposits into loans. Are cities dead? Is cash dead? These are less useful.

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