Finally laying out the origins of the National Association of Manufacturers, TSBU looks at the tactics by Capital to shape the American political economy into a corporatist hell from George Pullman's dystopian town at the end of the 19th century, through the General Association of Manufacturer's open class warfare, to the bizarre religiously-tinged mass propaganda program of the NAM. Festoons abound!
Credit: Hagley Digital Archives digital.hagley.org/MSS_1411_0079_013_002
Reading: Schneirov, Richard. The Pullman Strike. Northern Illinois University. digital.lib.niu.edu/illinois/gildedage/pullman Watts, Sarah Lyons. Order Against Chaos: Business Culture and Labor Ideology in America 1880-1915. Greenwood Press, 1991. Artistic Decorations: Adornments of the Hall for the Manufacturers' Convention. In National Association of Manufacturers founding news article. Retrieved from Hagley Digital Archives. digital.hagley.org/MSS_1411_0079_013_002
My name is Fritz McAlinden and this is The State Between Us, the anti-fascist podcast for dark dives into the ruling class insanity and fashy political cultures as well as our defenses against them through mutual aid and building each other up, sharing knowledge, and connecting the disparate voices in our overlapping struggles. Also TTRPGs, Sci-Fi, and other nerd shit. Let's get weird with it!
