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the only thing more powerful than capital is the people who refuse to lift it
means Physical or mental work, especially the hard, sustained kind — and, by extension, the collective body of workers who perform it.
from From Latin 'labor,' meaning toil, hardship, or exertion — the same root that gives us 'laborious' and 'elaborate' (literally 'worked out'). It traveled into English through Old French 'labour' in the medieval period. The Latin word carried a heavier weight than mere 'work'; it implied strain and suffering, which is why 'labor' also came to name the pains of childbirth — the body's most ancient hard work.
- first strike
- Egyptian pyramid workers walked out around 1159 BC
- weekend invented
- unions won the two-day break, not bosses
- may day
- global workers' holiday born from a Chicago riot
- word root
- comes from Latin for toil and suffering
- hidden value
- most labor on Earth is unpaid and domestic
for instance
foxconn worker conditions — apple supplier in shenzhen, china employs 1 million+ workers in electronics manufacturing