labor movements and various radical and reformist thinkers, critics, parties, and political tendencies began to first build solidarity and community around resistance to these new exploitative forms of life and then subsequently to articulate a role for the government to step in and regulate key aspects of the labor-for-wages market exchange.
At the same time, there seems to still be a widespread understanding that the way the labor market currently exists is not good for us so I’m not sure that this argument is a good way to instill hope in where we’re headed. Labor in the US in particular has created a generation of people who are a sort of economic underclass.
