That seems like an incomplete comparison. We could also look at the inverse, where industry shut down as it couldn't operate and thus those people have zero hou

That seems like an incomplete comparison. We could also look at the inverse, where industry shut down as it couldn't operate and thus those people have zero hour workweeks. Your argument deviates from one around consent back to the worker seeking the upper hand, which isn't that different (just the other way around) to what you counter with - where workers refuted being overworked (the employer having control). Control over the other party - in any direction isn't good. Only consent, that was my original point.