The American History Podcast, Season 3, Episode 6, The Rise of Labor and the Myth of the Robber Baron.

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week the song is, we shall not be moved. See ya on the other side. All right. So, let's talk

about the rise of the labor movement in the United States. Now, as I'm sure you've heard or read about,

the conditions in the factories during the Industrial Revolution were, let say less than ideal some of the factories had conditions that were truly horrible

now having said that not each and every single job and each and every single factory was the same

thing i don't want to paint with that broad of a brush. We'll discuss more later,

but let's talk for a moment about why. First, many of these were low-skilled jobs, and this meant

that almost anyone could do the job, and that meant workers were abundant. So the owner or the owners of the factories didn't need to make

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