• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Its crazy they dont even talk about this in American schools. They attribute it to Henry Ford.

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      2 months ago

      Lived in a liberal state, but when I was in high school, they attributed it to the Wobblies and left it at that.

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          I mean, the Wobblies were a big part of the labor movement which achieved the 40-hour workweek. It’s just a mixture of “Glossing over” and “Complex background reduced to the most prominent actor regardless of whether it’s the right one”

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            I think they mean that the “Wobblies” and the “Pinkertons” just sound like a bunch of cartoon characters or something.