Al Gore's roommates at Harvard were Tommy Lee Jones , today an actor (e.g. Batman Forever), and Bob Somerby, who later became an editor for a media criticism website.
During the Industrial Revolution, inaction on behalf of the government to pass labor laws and protect the workers resulted in the formation of labor unions is a true statement. This was because there had been a history of worker exploitation, with laborers receiving extremely low wages, long working hours and unhealthy work conditions. People decided to take matters into their own hands, as the government was not helping.
