Europe’s Era of Agitation Heralds More Clashes on Spoils of Work

  • Season of strikes and protests center on labor entitlements
  • Confrontation is concerted backlash to waning share of labor
Uncollected garbage in central Paris.Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg
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From London to Berlin and Paris, a new era of agitation over the spoils of capitalism is revealing itself in piles of uncollected garbage, shuttered transit systems, and mass protests.