HIST 3240 : Labour Studies 1A03.pdf
Document Summary
Idea or the thinking around work prior industrial revolution: If you were a worker you were not free (no rights) Vast majority of humanity had to engage in labour. Serfs (who owned your land, they owned you) Major law governing the relationship between the worker and the boss: master and servant act. Servant serves the master in any and all ways. Basic examples: in terms of how long you worked. It was taken for granted that you had to remain with the master for however long he said. The notion that an organization can speak for workers is a very new idea. It was because of a series of actions that labour unions took upon themselves. Limits of hours of work was one of the first things they campaigned for. Getting settlement and economy going, depends on having a staple. Essential to the early history of the new world.
