Millennials didn't kill the 'organization man' after all. Federal data reveals it was the boomers all along

Long before quiet quitting, boomers rejected "working for the man," says UNC sociologist Arne Kalleberg, "which is exactly what’s happening now."...

https://fortune.com/2023/09/02/job-hopping-millennials-boomers-switching-careers-disloyalty-organization-man-bls/

Millennials didn’t kill the ‘organization man’ after all. Federal data reveals it was the boomers all along

The supposedly disloyal millennial really followed in the steps of younger boomers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics finds.

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Worker power is great and all but goddamn you for robbing us of the pensions

What they said is a lie, anyways. Collective action is the core of worker power. “Mobility” is a feature of a low worker power environment where we aren’t able to extract our demands from our work places. Who would want to spend time looking for new jobs if we could just get good raises, advancement, and work life balance out of the jobs we’ve already got?

Don’t trust fortune.com to talk about worker issues honestly, it’s a rag for the other side of the equation.

Yeah, you can probably plot a graph that shows union membership declining at the same pace as ‘company loyalty’ or whatever. The job hopping phenomenon is largely caused by corporations themselves, who stopped giving raises and promotions and started doing regular layoffs.