Workers' rights

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"A fair day's-wages for a fair day's work:" it is as just a demand as Governed men ever made of Governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Thomas Carlyle

Past and Present

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Topic

Workers' rights Human rights Citizen and state

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Source

Past and Present

Language

English

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, bk. 1, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present, edited by David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford University Press, 2023, bk. 1, ch. 3.

I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic

Workers' rights

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Speech in Hartford, Connecticut

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech in Hartford, Connecticut." 5 Mar. 1860, Hartford City Hall, Hartford, CT, USA.