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2022 in Historical Context -- How Do You Like Your New Gilded Age?

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Great Depression and the Great Depression

As part of this bargain in return the labor unions had to make certain promises they had to promise not to strike or walk out or to an anyway protest or hinder the war effort. They allowed the government to claim the right to use force to keep the trains running which was already established by Wilson versus new case. This bargain basically held through 1918 until shortly after the end of the war but then in 1919 now that the crisis is no longer happening the state tried to revise the bargain. The railway administration for firstly rescinded all of its promises to labor as far as hours safety conditions living wage and put control back with private corporations. And furthermore the government approved cuts to the workers pay so using this

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