• JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    This is why workplace safety regulations exist and why part of those requirements is that workers are informed of the hazards they are going to encounter during work.

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      4 months ago

      People who are broadly anti regulation are fools or villains. Fools don’t know history and villains don’t care. Sometimes people are both.

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        4 months ago

        no no, the invisible hand of the market will fix it! it’s just, sometimes, the fix is death. Oh, and child labor.

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      3 months ago

      I assume unions fighting for these regulations would play as a significant reason for the safety regulations in this case? I could be wrong but I don’t believe these regulations came from concerns for the workers as much as the workers fighting for these rights even in the Radium Girls scenario.

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        3 months ago

        The means wasn’t really what I was aiming to point out. I was more communicating solely the motive for those regulations, whether fought for by workers or instated by bureaucracy.