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Open-Mouth Sabotage, Networked Resistance, and Asymmetric Warfare on the Job

… We’re living in an era of labor relations characterized by the convergence of two trends:  the emergence of unprecedented possibilities for easy, low-cost damage to employers, at a time when workers have less reason for loyalty to their employers than at any time since the Thirteenth Amendment. In other words, the perfect storm. As more and more disgruntled workers figure out the possibilities, it will be impossible to put the genie back in the bottle.

The twentieth century was the era of the large organization.  By the end of the twenty-first, there probably won’t be enough of them left to bury.