The labor movement has always advanced when workers were willing to risk their jobs to make gains—and even, on occasion, willing to risk their lives. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many who fought capital were virtually exiled from their homes and communities, especially in one-industry towns, where mining, textiles, steel, or electrical manufacturing was the only game to play in. Under these circumstances, job security was won by prolonged labor struggle; it was the legacy of countless heroes who were willing to sacrifice life and limb for the workers’ cause. Like academic tenure—the job security program for professors, most of whom are not troublemakers—when not accompanied by struggle, job security has become a way to fold workers into the system, to reward their acquiescence to the austerities imposed on them by capital.