By Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault takes us into the 1st centuries of our personal period, into the Golden Age of Rome, to bare a refined yet decisive holiday from the classical Greek imaginative and prescient of sexual excitement. He skillfully explores the complete corpus of ethical mirrored image between philosophers (Plutarch, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca) and physicians of the period, and uncovers an expanding distrust of enjoyment and transforming into anxiousness over sexual intercourse and its outcomes.
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And which people get to understand? ” And because “what you want” is generally in proportion to what you think you can get, demands rise or fall based on what people believe they might reasonably achieve. Who is the actual you in “what you want”? To better understand outcomes—winning or losing, a little or a lot—requires breaking down each subclause in Ganz’s excellent definition of strategy. First, Ganz rightly suggests that the specific “biographies” of those on “leadership teams” can directly affect strategy because “diverse teams” bring a range of “salient knowledge” and varied and relevant networks to the strategy war room.
Who is in and out of the overlapping list depends on the exact months and years of various complicated turf wars. Although the external environment of all unions is extremely hostile, unions could be winning much more. The reasons for the ongoing decline of union membership lie mainly in how unions engage with their existing members and with unorganized workers. Despite its now decades-old rhetoric about organizing, New Labor mostly uses a mobilizing approach. Much labor history and analysis focus on external factors to explain union decline—the employer offensive, hostile courts, globalization, automation, and a changing employment structure—ignoring strategy and methods for engaging workers.
That is, they don’t like unions, but they see child labor laws, workplace safety regulations, the eight-hour workday, and the weekend—all benefits won by workers engaged in collective action through their unions—as the reasonable and beneficial norm. Similarly, many white people in the United States might find #blacklivesmatter overly confrontational, but they take it for granted that black people can vote, and that whites-only primaries and officially segregated schools are wrong, racist, and a thing of the past.
