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Unions and their history

Unions are organizations where workers collectively bargain for wages, conditions, and rights rather than negotiating individually with employers—a power structure that only works because it refuses to be broken by any single person's desperation. Their history reveals how material improvements in working life (weekends, safety standards, child labor bans) arrived not through benevolence but through sustained collective action, and how that same mechanism remains available when conditions deteriorate.

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