“In reaction to the economic injustice of the Gilded Age, workers helped transform the vistas of reform by bringing new concerns for the underclass of urban poor. They inspired and guided Progressives to challenge the reigning ethos of laissez-faire, and to address the problems of crowded tenement housings, sweatshops, child labor. Where industry was cruel or uncomprehending of the human beings it employed, labor insisted in the ten- and eight-hour day, time for leisure and the enjoyment of live, and ultimately health benefits and insurance that would protect workers and their families; none of these achievements came easily, indeed all were resisted fiercely, yet in time they became standard features of American life.” - “There is Power in a Union” by Philip Dray, p. 7. Buy on Amazon: http://amzn.to/dhHmFi
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Don't Read This... Either you have an insatiable curiosity, are rebellious, or just don’t follow directions but you made it this far and now you have to pay the price – reading yet another jumble of banal bloggery by some wannabe Web 2.0 pundit, who has neither the grammatical proficiency nor the figurative prowess to ever attempt writing in the real world but who, for reasons far exceeding the realms of rational thought, feels compelled, nay entitled, to proffer his self-indulgent ramblings to an audience no larger than the square root of his immediate family. And so begins my dive, face first and screaming into the blogosphere…you were warned. _______________________________ Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven ~ HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ~ W.B. Yeats (1865–1939). The Wind Among the Reeds. 1899. _______________________________
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