This is the owners' press,not the workers. When Scotland was first industrializing in the 1700's, unions were illegal and the bosses were pretty much the nobility that had never lost control in Scotland. Early wealth, to these few, came from tobacco, slavery and milling cotton as well as big landed estates converting to cattle and sheep,…
This is the owners' press,not the workers. When Scotland was first industrializing in the 1700's, unions were illegal and the bosses were pretty much the nobility that had never lost control in Scotland. Early wealth, to these few, came from tobacco, slavery and milling cotton as well as big landed estates converting to cattle and sheep, away from rents from sharecroppers, who were kicked off the land. The owners tried to cut weaver's wages 25%, which set off some of the first riots in this feudal country. The police and army came and shot and killed some of the workers. The rest went back to work at the reduced pay. More riots continued, more shootings, but eventually the feudal lords lost power to the merchants and factory bosses. Adam Smith rose out of this and wrote that, contrary to the "free markets" that our wealthy cite Smith for, that the wealth of nations rises out of work. No one shares less of the wealth today than the US. And now that the wealthy own all branches of government, what should we expect?
This is the owners' press,not the workers. When Scotland was first industrializing in the 1700's, unions were illegal and the bosses were pretty much the nobility that had never lost control in Scotland. Early wealth, to these few, came from tobacco, slavery and milling cotton as well as big landed estates converting to cattle and sheep, away from rents from sharecroppers, who were kicked off the land. The owners tried to cut weaver's wages 25%, which set off some of the first riots in this feudal country. The police and army came and shot and killed some of the workers. The rest went back to work at the reduced pay. More riots continued, more shootings, but eventually the feudal lords lost power to the merchants and factory bosses. Adam Smith rose out of this and wrote that, contrary to the "free markets" that our wealthy cite Smith for, that the wealth of nations rises out of work. No one shares less of the wealth today than the US. And now that the wealthy own all branches of government, what should we expect?