Whether alone, as an individual or as a group. If an individual doesn't help themselves, then they won't. Overall, I believe people should stand up for what they believe in (of course if it doesn't harm another individual). For example, in the video, Reich called the period from 1947 to 1977, the Great Prosperity. Over this period of time, the government increased workers' bargaining leverage. The working class was guaranteed the right to join trade unions. According to the video, by the mid-1950s more than a third of all American private sector workers were unionized. Today only 12% of workers are present