Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ONE RETIRED laborer, wheezing with cotton-induced brown lung disease like many retired J.P. Stevens workers, tells of her childhood visists to her parents in a Stevens plant. Since skipping through the cotton dust around the plant as a child, she had known she would work for Stevens, like everyone...
SUCH DEFERENCE for J.P. Stevens humanizes the inhumane reputation the company has earned among unionized workers across the country. Company workers personify their employer. Seduced by corporation propaganda, Stevens' workers personify the company, calling it "Stevenson" or "J.P." When told of its efforts to increase production at the expense of...
But as soon as the reader is certain of the workers' distrust of unions and the success of Stevens' anti-union propaganda campaigns, Conway injects the National Labor Relations Board evidence. In 1972, the Board determined that in these elections, the workers voted under coersion and the threat of illegal...
The worker's almost total indifference to this verified illegality is a fascinating phenomenon, one rarely analysed in terms of labor injustices and ripe Conway's analysis falls short, leaving the reader with simply a sense of frustration. Stevens employees are torn between contradicting impulses of self-interest and blind...
Stevens workers turn away from unionizatior because their vision of J.P. Stevens is one of the small town textile mill, organizing picnics, handing out holiday bonuses, paternally providing jobs, money and security. Ironically, their gasping and wheezing testimonies of Stevens unjustices are dominated by reflections of their mill town's...