The Role of Labor Struggles in Florence

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After the Black Death, of course, there's this tilt in favor of laboring populations. Chidi also points out that there's like a kind of three-way struggle there too. There's financiers, there's the artisan class, and there's Like the class that extends from parenthesis all the way down to truly surplus populations. And that three-way tug, like the cycle of first profitability, and then its loss or its decline is expressed as deindustrialization.

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