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To: Ilaine who wrote (90339)4/5/2003 4:21:49 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Your example of the early industrial revolution is a good one. Children working in mines, workers being crushed by poorly designed machines, smokestacks belching black soot, piles of slag being poured into rivers. Brown lung caused by cotton dust, black lung caused by coal dust, lung cancer from asbestos.

What we often don't remember is that the majority of the workers voluntarily entered into the industrial work force, because conditions were an improvement over life on the farm. In industry, at least you got paid. There's a big tendency to romanticize pre-industrial conditions. It's a mistake.
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