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The deindustrialization of America with the concomitant loss of decent paying jobs, the rise of unemployment, and the increasing poverty among the working class requires a novel response. The challenges of "free trade," globalization and international competition and technological change are all threatening the viability of the labor movement in the U.S. The use of eminent domain offers a meaningful tool that can be implemented to counter this trend. Eminent domain has been legally used and constitutionally sanctioned for community, infrastructure, and development purposes. The time is ripe for a broad‐based coalition of legislatures, community interests, labor unions, and social movements to promote the use of eminent domain to expropriate with compensation enterprises in danger of being abandoned and moved offshore by their owners. Decisions by the owners of enterprises have repercussions and societal externalities that legitimize the rights to regulate them by way of eminent domain on behalf of the public interest. Workers in cooperatives in both the U.S. and throughout the world have shown that they can run factories and enterprises without owners and managers if given the necessary financial and legal wherewithal.

Rekindling the Movement: Labor's Quest for Relevance in the 21st Century. Edited by Lowell Turner, Harry C. Katz, AND Richard W. Hurd.

Explores the meanings of class consciousness & ideological beliefs among the working class in Buenos Aires, Argentina, based on a comparison of interview data collected from trade union laborers & employees (total N = 110) during the Alfonsin administration in 1985/86. Revealed are the complex, seemingly contradictory, variety of social-democratic, liberal, & conservative values & attitudes held by the respondents. Peronism remains the ideological anchor of many workers. They are centrist in their support of a liberal-capitalist economy, Left in their espousal of markedly better income distribution for workers, & Right in the defense of their communities & neighborhoods. Workers' historical connections, cultural outlooks, & educational levels impact heavily on their views of democracy & sense of class. 13 Tables. Adapted from the source document.

The majority of the working classes are divided into various factions that display a host of views and attitudes. As E. P. Thompson has portrayed the concept of class, it is at best not a permanent structure or category but something that emerges from time to time when workers band together for one reason or another. The complexity of this phenomenon has been compounded by the growth of various sectors of the working class, adding to its heterogeneity and amorphousness. Marx himself perceived that capitalism had "converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science into its paid wage labourers."