stackyFACTSBecause quitting your job is impossible when your boss literally owns the dirt you stand on. Medieval laborers were legally bound to their local lord's estate, meaning if the land changed hands, the people living on it were transferred right along with it.
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The independent labor economy used to involve substantially more bloodshed. The term was coined in the nineteenth century to describe medieval mercenaries who…
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The midday caffeine dose was not a gracious gift to let you relax and socialize. Employers realized that heavily caffeinated workers made fewer errors on the…
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You might think it was designed to give adults a living wage, but it was actually just a tool to price ten-year-olds out of the coal mines. If employers had…
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Even brilliant historical minds had to grovel for employment. In the late fifteenth century, the legendary polymath wrote a highly exaggerated letter to the…
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Diplomacy is absolutely useless when you can just deploy a private militia. Industrial titans routinely hired armed detective agencies to violently…
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Long before modern labor boards, the Code of Hammurabi strictly dictated how much corn you had to pay a hired worker. Of course, the penalties for breaking…
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