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Indeed, some mill owners in 1850s Britain built (good) housing and sometimes entire villages for their workers.
by jahewson 8y ago
Indeed, some mill owners in 1850s Britain built (good) housing and sometimes entire villages for their workers.
- paganel 8y agoThe same happened in former Austro-Hungary. The bad thing was when said owners decided that they should impose their moral precepts on their workers: "it's bad having fun and drinking till late at night on Sundays because no-one will come to work sober on Mondays, so let's punish those workers who are seen as encouraging this behavior". It was also not fun for the workers/tenants being forced to buy all their food stuff from the owners' shops, who in fact had imposed a monopoly in feeding their workers. That's pretty close to servitude, if you ask me.