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Is that strictly an American Boy Scout thing? I’ve never heard of it, and it seems contradictory to several of the tenets of Scouting.
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No idea; they mention Russia, but I’m unsure if Tsarist Russian Scouts were US or UK style.
The source is Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America by Stephen Norwood.
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Primo Levi was amazing and his account of the camps is still unparalleled.
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Ever read The Wrench? Not about WWII at all, but still top-grade Primo. It’s an extended meditation on the dignity of labour.
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I haven’t! I’ll put it on my list! thanks for the recommendation.
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It is rather blokey, though; it’s a long conversation between two middle-aged dudes, and IIRC women barely feature at all. I don’t recall it as being notably sexist, but I last read it about fifteen years ago.
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This, I think, highlights the difference between police unions and other labour unions. Even if other unions don’t strike with each other, they encourage not crossing picket lines for non life-or-death reasons (even nurses on strike don’t blame someone who needs to use the ER, for example). Police will take a picket line apart if they are ordered to.
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Yeah, but it’s Levi, so I’m sure it will still be worth the read.
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There is a Fatima Mansions song which calls the cops “a rich man’s militia”… entirely accurate.
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