Focusing on the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movements, this article in The Nation focuses on the jobless, stating the unions rarely focus on the unemployed or speak for them. Neither does mainstream economics.
The article cites Rob Atkinson, pointing out that mainstream economic elites have basically popularized the view that high unemployment is one of those things that happens from time to time, and there is nothing we can do about it; it has to run its course.
