Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Looking at the state of labor in the US, it can be hard to believe that 35 percent of all workers once belonged to a union. That was back in the 1940s, the peak of American organized labor. Since then, unions have been systematically neutered by corporate lobbying, hostile legislation, and half-century of manufactured consent about the virtues of the free market. It might be hard to imagi