Yeah. There are some interesting analyses of how that played out. Besemer WAS a steel town, and there was a way for people to work their way up within the mill(s). There were a variety of wage levels.
Then there was nothing.
Then Amazon came along. Most of the jobs pay $15, which is better than federal minimum wage, but there aren’t upward paths through the system. And even $15 isn’t very much, compared to what they or their parents were making at the mills. But: $15 in the hand versus maybe being fired for being a little too .. insistent … about unionizing.
Yeah. There are some interesting analyses of how that played out. Besemer WAS a steel town, and there was a way for people to work their way up within the mill(s). There were a variety of wage levels.
Then there was nothing.
Then Amazon came along. Most of the jobs pay $15, which is better than federal minimum wage, but there aren’t upward paths through the system. And even $15 isn’t very much, compared to what they or their parents were making at the mills. But: $15 in the hand versus maybe being fired for being a little too .. insistent … about unionizing.
It’s no wonder Amazon won.