You speak of worker's rights, and you use the term 'won' - this implies there is a loser(s) and this harkens back to the slavery of yore, people unpaid and late

You speak of worker's rights, and you use the term 'won' - this implies there is a loser(s) and this harkens back to the slavery of yore, people unpaid and later minimally paid. I recall Ford paid wages that the other car makers despised him for just around WW1, he said he wanted his workers to be able to buy the cars they made. One of the key successes of the Industrial Revolution (IR) was the added wages induced by scarce worker competition. For many hundreds of years workers were in craft guilds. The classic crafts ( carpenters/iron/weave////) were all in craft guilds with strict rules to enter a guild, and to finally become a master craftsman after they passed their final approval of their work by that guild (now you know what a masterpiece is). All of day to day life was parcelled up in these guild, it was a rigid hierarchical society. It ran this way for thousands of years, with slow progression. The printing method of Gutenberg was the first crack in this near permanent society in that it allowed people to create large numbers of printed pages to spread information to people, and they allowed a cleric (Luther) to spread the word and shatter the mediaeval corrupt theocracy (the catholic church) by revealing how crooked and corrupt they were to people at large who could read or be read to. Before this, books were made by the scribes guild, pages were hand copied word by word, and often decorated with ornate glyphs, etc = Manuscripts = written by hand. Early printed books, incunabules, were made to closely resemble manuscripts, often with several colors and small ornate blocks added later to be like the manuscripts they replaced. The RC church had a fake religious structure of a god/saints/heaven/hell/angels etc, carefully structured to control people and steal from them. One of their bogeymen was heaven/hell/purgatory. Purgatory was a half-way house. The worthy went to heaven, the permanently damned went to hell, those not that good/bad went to the half-way house = purgatory = purge your 'sins', what these RC weasels did was to monetise purgatory by an 'indulgence' = pay $$ to the RC church = less time purging = to heaven you go - this was a classic monopoly = all your $$ belong to us. So Luther printed tens of thousand of 1 pagers(there were also many books/pamphlets) that exposed this as BS = a wide protest was born = protestant church, that soon won most of Europe - the closer to Rome, the harder it was to win. The RC lost and is in the final stage of decline. Here in Canada well under 5% of people bother at all, but a higher % are bribed to pay lip service for various benefits. I digress. Print was the crack that started the Scientific Revolution (SR) as teachable data could be cranked out in huge volume at low cost, and the SR led to the IR and the decline of the crafts when the IR allowed mass production of anything. This meant more workers, more wages etc and TRIH!! Getting back to 'we partially won' = that means the maker is the classic enemy of the worker. In fact, I believe you are wrong. They need not be enemies, there is no war. There are people helping each other. One of the reasons that Japan and Korea and Europe mastered this was to get the workers and manufacturers to be on the same side. I recall the UAW refused to have 2 board members on the car makers board of directors!!. Remember, board members have full access to all financial of the company = whatever they want = they get. The UAW wanted to be a pure adversary. From the 1940's they have done this. What did it get them? Good wages for one, but they lost 85% of their jobs as the high wages allowed Japan/Korea/Germany/UK/Italy the ability to make cars for the US/Canada market because those high wages made US/Canada costs high = allowed their entry. European/Korean/Japanese unions had board memberships that properly and rationally allowed their unions to chart a reasonable wage where at the end of their process their members had good wages and the products they made could achieve good market sales, which is a win-win for company as well as employees. Thus the USA/Canada needs to move from this adversarial positioning at both the union and maker management level for the good of all. /rant