Males privilege

Archibald_Andino · 2017-07-17T23:42:07+00:00

"Women, like the two in this photo, are the true victims of men working in horrendous conditions throughout history" /s

Throwaway_Old_Guy · 2017-07-17T23:06:05+00:00

Late FIL was a coal miner in Nova Scotia. He started when he was 13...

At that time, you went down to the coal face with a partner, but if your partner didn't show up you went down alone. They also hung a red tag next to this person's lamp so everybody knew they hadn't showed up. HUGE badge of shame.

You went down to the coal face, and shot-fired it. (it involved explosives) You then hand loaded the coal because this is back in the days of hand carts and pit-ponies and there were no automatic cutting/loading machines. If you didn't load everything you shot down, you didn't get paid for the day. Shoot down 10 tons and only load 9? No money for you.

It was a brutal way to barely feed your family, and the company did their best to keep you poor enough that you couldn't afford to leave.

p1005_ · 2017-07-17T22:53:03+00:00

Elevator to the bottom of a coal mine. They would pack as many people as they could (some being literally boys at 12 yo as they could fit in small places) and send them down to work. Keep in mind there was no such thing as OSHA or labor unions then, and elevator inspections did not exist. If it fell, oh well, how many need to be replaced, how many made it and are they working yet? And that was just at work, the mining towns where a whole other type of hell.

Traccoon · 2017-07-17T22:21:09+00:00

What are these guys doing?

2017-07-18T14:04:44+00:00

Most of the towns where isolated from other towns, and workers lived in homes owned by the company. They where paid not with money, but script from the company. The local (and company owned) stores where the only places that would accept the script, and most of the time they would jack prices up by 100% or more, knowing that the workers did not have a choice. These stores would also often times extend credit to workers, at huge interest rates. They, in affect, created indentured servitude threw control of money, housing, goods, etc. Now keep in mind, the workers did not HAVE to buy from the company, but often times the nearest town was hundreds of miles away, the workers did not own transportation (horses where expensive to keep) and stores outside the camp did not take company script. Now obviously this did not apply to every single camp, but it was standard practice for the mining industry.

Title	Males privilege
Author	lifegasm
Upvotes	95
Comments	14
Date	July 17, 2017 8:56 PM UTC (9 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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