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    1 year ago

    Why? They were right. The advent of mechanization in textile factories led to a profound weakening of labor and a steep decline in working conditions generally.

    They were demanding worker protections both in terms of safety and livability and they didn’t get them. They were demanding fair wages and were correctly concerned that the machine operators would be so thoroughly subservient to the machine owners that they would never again have significant power over their own profession.

    And again, the were right. That’s what happened.