If America Votes Drumpf In Again, It's Not Worth Saving

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45. I would mention the conditions and backbreaking life

of workers in the US and Europe in industrial factories, mines, sweatshops and more that were abysmal until labor reforms and rights advanced in the earlier 20th c. particularly in America. It took the efforts of the progessive era, fierce protests, the formation of organized labor movements and the use of strikes. Push back often came with violence and severe reprisals. Not in any way close orequivalent to centuries of oppression, violence and misery under slavery and Jim Crow, but yet harsh, brutal and unyielding, esp. by later 20th c. standards.

A form of serfdom, mainly agricultural was maintained in parts of eastern Europe and Russia until 1861 but vestiges remained longer in some areas. Brazil did not abolish slavery until 1888 and Cuba in 1886. There are unfortunately lingering effects there for people of African descent.