Progress. What do we mean by the word progress? Technical innovation? Social change? Living standards? Education? Equality? Globalisation? For everyone? Lessons from the past show that governments need to legislate in order for innovation to benefit the many and not the few. In the 19th century we start to see legislation working to enact what we took for granted in the 20th century: Factory Acts to limit working hours and to mandate paid holidays. Rudimentary health and safety in factories and the workplace.
