In company towns, most services (housing, education, etc.) were provided by the employer for the workers. This meant that the workers depended on the company for the fulfillment of all their basic needs.
If the company disliked the idea of the workers joining a union, as they often did, then they had several means to pressure workers into compliance. They could raise rents or evict them from their homes, for example. This monopoly put workers in a tough situation, and discouraged them from joining unions.
That statement is false.
In most karate communities, sweeping dojo floor and picking up trash are the responsibility of all members,
They all commonly clean the room together right before and after a training session.
Ruling out rival hypotheses, Findings consistent with several hypotheses
require additional research to eliminate these hypotheses. More five principles
of critical thinking are: (1.) Correlation vs. Causation, the fact that two
things are associated with each other doesn’t mean that one causes the other.
(2.) Replicability, a finding must be capable of being duplicated by
independent researchers following the same recipe. (3.) Occam’s Razor,
if two hypotheses explain a phenomenon equally well, we should generally select
the simpler one. (4.) Falsifiability, claims
must be capable of being disproved. (5.) Extraordinary Claims, the more a
claim contradicts what we already know, the more persuasive the evidence must
be before we should accept it.