• RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    Incrementalism did not achieve the 8 hour workday, anarchists and communists throwing bombs did, because power has no reason to compromise unless it is actually threatened.

    • Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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      6 hours ago

      True that mate but it was refined and expanded globally expanded after well over 100 years of incremental updates. Least from the United States wiki 1791 to 1937.

      It was actually interesting reading how much of this came from efficiency studies in ww1.