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To: The Philosopher who wrote (41341)	6/22/1999 2:58:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

To whom it may concern (Chris please ignore): Until the 1850's in the US many workers worked from dawn to dusk. The 10 hour day movement directed toward government naval yards was considered quite a reform. (First US craft unions formed -- some of them still active.) In Protestant lands, Christmas was not a holiday. Thanksgiving was declared during the Civil War but widely ignored until the 1930's. The President, if he felt like it, declared a (voluntary) holiday. Until the 1930's steel workers worked 12 hours a shift for two weeks, then worked 24 straight when shifts changed. The idea that Oxford and Cambridge educated an elite in the 17th and 18th centuries is a joke. Mostly exclusive drinking clubs. Read Adam Smith on his attempt to get an education at Oxford (the Scots universities were far more educational but no go for the Church of England and a C of S pulpit paid almost nothing). A handful of scholars won honours to become slumbering fellows or church perferment. No one else cracked a book.