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The Importance of Labor on the Rails
This conflict underlines something that i pointed out back in 2020 which is the sort of perverse double meaning of this phrase essential workers right as i said various workers in health care transit food service were labeled during the pandemic as essential workers. The rate of injury and death among rail workers was astronomical in the mid-19th century when the rails first became the central crucial infrastructure of trade and travel around the country. In those years in the 1870s and 80s about one out of 20 rail workers died or was debilitated.
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