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They weren’t subhuman slave class. But it’s far from clear they had economic agency.
by jncfhnb 2y ago
They weren’t subhuman slave class. But it’s far from clear they had economic agency.
- Orbital_Armada 2y agoAlthough the laborers working on pyramids and tombs were initially mostly corvee labor, they did evolve into a more specialized and privileged class of artisans over the (very long) course of Egyptian history. The first recorded labor strike in history occurred in a village of such artisans over lack of pay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_el-Medina_strikes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_el-Medina_strikes