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This chapter continues the discussion on worker grievances by exploring labor troubles among the Romans, and more bloody plans of salvation tried. Topics covered by the chapter include the irascible plan in Italy; epidemic uprisings; attempt to fire the city of Rome and have things common; conspiracy of slaves at the metropolis; two traitors; betrayal; deaths on the Roman gibbet; another great uprising at Setia; expected capture of the world; land of wine and delight; again the traitor, the betrayal and gibbet; the irascible plan a failure; strike of the agricultural laborers in Etruria; slave labor; character of the Etruscans; expedition of Glabro; fighting; slaves worsted; punishment on the dreadful cross, the ancient block for the for the low-born; enormous strike in the land of labor organizations; one glimpse at the cause and origin of Italian Brigandage; laborers, mechanics and agriculturers driven to despair; the great uprising in Apulia; fierce fighting to the dagger's hilt; the overthrow, the dungeon and the cross; and, proof dug from fragments of lost history. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Published: May 9, 2011
Keywords: laborers; labor organizations; worker grievances
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