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Show Notes
recorded September 3, 2025
This week we celebrate the American laborer that keeps the wheels of industry turning. But what was it like at a time when labor drove the actual industrial revolution? TLDR, it was a horror show of course! We go from the Poor Law of 1834 to workhouses, to manufacturing fire in a locked building, to labor safety laws and the value of unions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Law_Amendment_Act_1834
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Victorian-Workhouse/
https://www.osha.gov/aboutosha/40-years/trianglefactoryfire
https://workerorganizing.org/premajority-unionism/unions/history/