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> Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck and the banks owns their cars and homes, so it’s much harder to unionize now than it was in the 1800s. What makes yo
by bsder 4y ago
> Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck and the banks owns their cars and homes, so it’s much harder to unionize now than it was in the 1800s.
What makes you think unionizing and striking was ever easy?
https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/homestead-strike https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/homeste...
https://www.iup.edu/library/departments/archives/coal/unions-and-mining/remembering-the-1906-strike-for-union-in-windber-pennsylvania.html https://www.iup.edu/library/departments/archives/coal/unions...
- gymbeaux 4y agoI don't think it was easy in the 1800s, I think it was easier. Now people are very materialistic, and in debt. Most of us need cars to live. We'd have to give up more now, to strike and unionize, than we did in the 1800s I think.