• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    12 天前

    No I mean you perception that workers using violence lead to their rights. This is not really accurate. If you are looking at the numbers such as workers versus industrialist killed it is not a good ratio.

    Violence was sanctioned and used against workers with impunity. When the workers did fight back with violence they were forcibly put down and sent to prison.

    Simply put, It is not because they were scared of the workers. This is nonsense. I suppose you could attribute collection action, but more importantly it was lobbying the government for protections and succeeding in convincing the wealthy that it was a better arrangement for all parties.