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"Workers in 1915 were sometimes required to work too much and other times too little; factory-worker hours could be shortened from one day to the next, leaving
by googletazer 10y ago
"Workers in 1915 were sometimes required to work too much and other times too little; factory-worker hours could be shortened from one day to the next, leaving workers with a severely reduced paycheck. "
The life of your service workforce today with fluctuating, uncertain hours. I don't completely agree with the economics behind fight for $15, but I salute them that they found balls to organize and demand better working conditions and wages.
- danharaj 10y agoNow that we have the Internet it will be much harder to stamp out and erase from history this nascent resurgence of labor politics.
- ommunist 10y agoQuite the contrary. Its a read/write web, and with sufficient permissions simple regular expression can completely rewrite human history. Unless you keep history books in a good order.
- astronautjones 10y agoyet, seemingly easier to convince the working class that labor politics are bad for them
- astronautjones 10y agoI lament that this seems true.