20. The National Association of Manufacturers: Pullman Town, Festoons, and Corporatism
Finally laying out the origins of the National Association of Manufacturers, TSBU looks at the tactics by Capital to shape the American political economy into a corporatist hell from George Pullman's dystopian town at the end of the 19th century, through the General Association of Manufacturer's open class warfare, to the bizarre religiously-tinged mass propaganda program of the NAM. Festoons abound!
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Satirical post in a 1935 newspaper
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