This is pure historical revisionism concocted solely to diminish modern struggles for worker organisation. Wages are and have always been the primary driver of

This is pure historical revisionism concocted solely to diminish modern struggles for worker organisation. Wages are and have always been the primary driver of unionising. The main motivation was never mustache twirling capitalist charicatures shoveling children into furnaces as fuel or some other unambiguous evil that we have since banished. Conditions have always been part of the bargain, but the goal has always been first and foremost higher wages.