But it left labor unions unprepared for the subsequent arrival of large corporations, which hired unskilled workers directly, without the imprimatur of a guild.
Multiple Greens have said they would be open to negotiating with Labor to form government in the event of a hung parliament, leaving Labor open to a scare campaign from the Liberals.
One assertion in the book I just mentioned was that labor's share of the economic pie had sunk to its lowest level since 1929, with the companion assertion that corporations and CEOs were seizing a larger share of the economic pie for themselves, leaving labor greatly diminished.
But it has also left labor lawyers and on-demand workers wondering what this means for the future of workers' rights in the burgeoning gig economy.
In the absence of a federal law requiring employers to grant workers paid sick leave, labor and public-health activists have been putting forth sick-day measures on the state and local levels across the country in the last two years.
The nation portrayed in Perlstein's compulsively readable chronicle, the America of Spiro Agnew inciting "positive polarization" and the New Left laboring to "heighten the contradictions," is long gone.
Massively parallel sequencing systems continue to improve on data output, while leaving labor-intensive library preparations a potential bottleneck.
The couple can avoid violating the "man earns more" social norm if the woman works part time or leaves the labor force altogether.
