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Before labor laws and OSHA...Before there was a minimum wage...Before social security...Before unemployment insurance...Before you could even buy health insurance...
This book reminds us of what life was like before these basic protections were available to all workers. We may whinge and cry about the state of these programs, their funding or lack thereof, and the ballooning tax burden felt by most of us, but lest we forget why we have these programs in the first place and risk taking them for gr ...more
This book reminds us of what life was like before these basic protections were available to all workers. We may whinge and cry about the state of these programs, their funding or lack thereof, and the ballooning tax burden felt by most of us, but lest we forget why we have these programs in the first place and risk taking them for gr ...more

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