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Really pathetic but unsurprising that people here are downvoting this comment. It's not often that you see an author constructing a literal straw-man these days
by ghostly_s 5y ago
Really pathetic but unsurprising that people here are downvoting this comment. It's not often that you see an author constructing a literal straw-man these days; the piece flatly ignores the importance of the massively powerful labor movements of this period--so powerful that states were regularly resorting to armed struggle with them--instead pretending that "social reformers" existed in a vacuum.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoDid we read the same article? The author addresses the labor movements and points out that they weren't very concerned with improving safety, sometimes worked against it and cites sources along the way.
- dredmorbius 5y ago"The author" has grossly cherry-picked sources and issues. https://youtube.com/watch?v=BwvpAlvM-SA https://youtube.com/watch?v=BwvpAlvM-SA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire#Aftermath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Centralia_mine_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Centralia_mine_disaster