I swear if Twitter had been around in the Industrial Revolution there’d be a tweet with 50k Likes like “if we can’t employ tiny orphans anymore, who will we send into the smallest mine shafts and between the sharp parts of the big machines???”
(Straight up, the job I worked at in high school violated labor law with me all the time in many ways— no breaks, working too late, requiring me to use machinery I wasn’t legally allowed to use—so I know it’s still an issue)
Now that this has blown up, I would like to apologize to my historian friends for not identifying it as the Second Industrial Revolution.
If you like worker’s rights, check out @CasaLatinaSea, @Legal_Voice, @SurLegal_ATL, @domesticworkers, @AdelanteAlabama, @NelpNews, @NationalCOSH, or form your own union!
Update: my sister found my twitter
You can follow @jessimurray.
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