LETTER

Just what the hell is Labor Day all about?!

Katie Tandy
Aug 31, 2018 · 5 min read
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Hi friends.

History is bleak. But it can afford us a small amount of relief and dare-I-say pride in the fact that we don’t subject one another to quite the level of atrocities we once did.

At the height of the Industrial Revolution, Americans were little more than greased cogs clad in flesh and bone. The average adult worked 12-hour-a-day, seven-day weeks to…

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