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| | Dorothy Day's Lessons for the Transformation of Work - The Transformation of Work |
 | | A century ago, the world of work, and of jobs within that world, had barely evolved from the cottage-industry descendants of the medieval guild systems, with the surplus labor pools largely constituted by the desperately indigent, indentured servants, and newly-freed slaves. |
 | | [T]he newly freed slaves who started their lives of freedom with no property, no money, no education, and usually no vocation other than farming were unable to use...market functions to bargain for higher wages and better living and working conditions. |
 | | As a consequence, the originally freed slaves remained economically deprived and their descendants reaped "a disproportionately small share of society's bounty as each successive generation passe[d] along its inherited economic disadvantage to the next." |
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