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Same Target, No Agreement
Same Target, No Agreement
Why horseshoe theory reaches for the wrong explanation, and what a better one predicts
In the first week of November 1932, Berlin’s buses and trams stopped. The city’s transport workers had struck, and for four days the depots were blocked, track was torn up, and the few trams driven by strikebreakers had their windows put through.
The dispute was over two pfennigs an hour. The transport company had wanted a much deeper pay cut, and the Social Democrat-aligned union had bargained it down to that and accepted the settlement. The Communist trade union rejected the…
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