[dsfyu404ed]

>Sure but that example from the steel industry surely was an outlier? What % of the workforce was still agrarian in the late 19th century?

Steel wasn't particularly an outlier compared to other industrial workplaces. Everything ran around the clock in shifts and shifts were longer with less breaks because low-training factory work tends to gravitate toward conditions that are the minimum of what is legal while still attracting sufficient quality labor. Farmers worked longer and harder before everyone and their brother had plenty of mechanized horsepower at their disposal. All the stuff you have to do to maintain the horse/oxen that you use for work gets tacked on the beginning and end of your workday.

[Nasrudith]

I wonder why that was downvoted. Anger for proving that arcadia never was?