What was accomplished? The 40 hour work week? The end of legalized child labor? Basic safety improvements in coal minds and the end of company towns? The basic right to form a union without your boss sending in a private fucking army? What's your explanation for where these things came from? Ever heard of Mother Jones (the person, not th…
What was accomplished? The 40 hour work week? The end of legalized child labor? Basic safety improvements in coal minds and the end of company towns? The basic right to form a union without your boss sending in a private fucking army? What's your explanation for where these things came from? Ever heard of Mother Jones (the person, not the magazine)? What about Eugene V Debs or the West Virginia coal wars?
The first child labor law was proposed in 1906 by a Republican senator. The 40 hour work week and age limits on work were passed by congress in 1938 (Fair Labor Standards Act). Yes, unions were, and mostly are, of the left. Like most movements, there is good and bad and in between to be found. On balance, where the left got it right (notice the pun?): equality in law and in fact for women, non-whites and gay people. That was then, This is now and what was once a solid and salutary movement has overplayed its hand.
What was accomplished? The 40 hour work week? The end of legalized child labor? Basic safety improvements in coal minds and the end of company towns? The basic right to form a union without your boss sending in a private fucking army? What's your explanation for where these things came from? Ever heard of Mother Jones (the person, not the magazine)? What about Eugene V Debs or the West Virginia coal wars?
The first child labor law was proposed in 1906 by a Republican senator. The 40 hour work week and age limits on work were passed by congress in 1938 (Fair Labor Standards Act). Yes, unions were, and mostly are, of the left. Like most movements, there is good and bad and in between to be found. On balance, where the left got it right (notice the pun?): equality in law and in fact for women, non-whites and gay people. That was then, This is now and what was once a solid and salutary movement has overplayed its hand.