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the reason you get a lunch break instead of a lunch shift.
means the legal protections ensuring workers get fair wages, safe conditions, and a say against exploitation.
from forged in the smoke of the industrial revolution, when 14-hour days and child labor made unions and strikes the only leverage workers had.
triangle shirtwaist fire146 deaths sparked modern workplace safety laws
weekend originunions invented it, not employers
first labor day1882, before it was even federal law
child labor bantook until 1938 in the us