History of the United States II / Unit 3 USH2 0327 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Twelve Hours, Seven Days
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The idea
Steelworkers laboured twelve hours a day, seven days a week, in some of the most dangerous conditions of the industrial age.
In practice
Nearly twenty-five thousand workers killed on the job in nineteen thirteen alone.
Where people slip
Another seven hundred thousand were hurt badly enough to miss a month of work that year. Few employers took responsibility.
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