[test098]

that coincides with industrialization and the subsequent rise of trade unions. the alternative was violence against capital.

[BoredPositron]

I don’t get the argument. Hours are hours and that there is no correlation to technical advancements is an extrem position to have… but hey you are not alone.

[slater]

It's not that there's no correlation. It's that there's many, MANY other reasons before you get even close to "oh yeah, and then we invented the steam engine"