/lit/ - Literature

Novels about the working class and the industrial revolution.
What are the best?

>>16650992
>>16651001
I seriously don’t understand how people can defend Libertarianism and say that regulation isn’t needed because the invisible hand of the free market will handle it, when the Gilded Age was a thing that existed.

Young oyster shuckers, from left to right, Josie, six years old, Bertha, six years old, Sophie, ten years old, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1912.

Work began at 4 AM and ended a 5 PM, making for a 13 hour workday. During winter when things were even busier, they would often be called in at 3:30 A.M. and have their lunches cut short, for no additional pay.

Notice how mangled their fingers are. It is quite easy to end up accidentally cutting yourself while shucking due to fatique, and losing a finger or two to gangrene was not uncommon.

These girls were obviously not able to go to school due to the hours worked, and when they got home they usually had to spend their little remaining time caring for younger siblings and doing household chores, frequently having to forgo a few hours of sleep to keep up with their workload.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2119875/Lewis-Hine-Child-oyster-shuckers-inhospitable-working-conditions-borne-thousands-children-labour-laws-passed.html

>>16645254
>>16645254
I seriously don’t understand how people can defend Libertarianism and say that regulation isn’t needed because the invisible hand of the free market will handle it, when the Gilded Age was a thing that existed.

Young oyster shuckers, from left to right, Josie, six years old, Bertha, six years old, Sophie, ten years old, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1912.

Work began at 4 AM and ended a 5 PM, making for a 13 hour workday. During winter when things were even busier, they would often be called in at 3:30 A.M. and have their lunches cut short, for no additional pay.

Notice how mangled their fingers are. It is quite easy to end up accidentally cutting yourself while shucking due to fatique, and losing a finger or two to gangrene was not uncommon.

These girls were obviously not able to go to school due to the hours worked, and when they got home they usually had to spend their little remaining time caring for younger siblings and doing household chores, frequently having to forgo a few hours of sleep to keep up with their workload.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2119875/Lewis-Hine-Child-oyster-shuckers-inhospitable-working-conditions-borne-thousands-children-labour-laws-passed.html

>>14606361
It's a bit of a joke and I'm having a drink so it may not have been clear.
In basic terms I am saying that Landianism reduces the source of power to second-order engineers, economic interpreters. Contrary to Plato's philosopher kings we see Moldbug's air traffic controllers, and in Land this is basically just a natural function of information. In this sense those who seek a return to complete Smith's project of capital imagine mobilisation of the bourgeoisie towards economic theory in the same way that the Soviets mobilised and reordered its peasants to industrial machinery.
One can imagine Platoov's ridiculous technobiological language applied to neoliberalism. This is effectively what is happening in the economic/market crisis at eh moment. kek, this probably sounds insane but we're dealing with pretty fucked up theories to begin with.
The proletarian sacrifices his limbs, the lumpenproletarian his entire body, the bourgeosie his head. But all unto Being.

>Let’s pretend for a moment that work doesn’t turn people into stultified submissives. Let’s pretend, in defiance of any plausible psychology and the ideology of its boosters, that it has no effect on the formation of character. And let’s pretend that work isn’t as boring and tiring and humiliating as we all know it really is. Even then, work would still make a mockery of all humanistic and democratic aspirations, just because it usurps so much of our time. Socrates said that manual laborers make bad friends and bad citizens because they have no time to fulfill the responsibilities of friendship and citizenship. He was right. Because of work, no matter what we do we keep looking at our watches. The only thing “free” about so-called free time is that it doesn’t cost the boss anything. Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is a euphemism for the peculiar way labor as a factor of production not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair. Coal and steel don’t do that. Lathes and typewriters don’t do that. But workers do. No wonder Edward G. Robinson in one of his gangster movies exclaimed, “Work is for saps!”

>>13273835
Just because there is difference and hierarchy doesn't mean that any iteration of difference and hierarchy is good. The instance is inferior to the form.
Perhaps most interesting is that your quotes show a growing impoverishment in this understanding, so perhaps there is more to what the OP is saying than some of us want to admit.
Pictured, three lobster-souled, not by birth or value, but the collective desire of the state of total impoverishment.

>>13165348
>muh capitalist bureaucracy statistics

>>13143585
Based Boomer.

>>13009565
Enjoy your voluntary labor camps.

>>12966593
And what is DG?
The tragedy of marxist failure turned as farce.