The US Constitution has been called a "bundle of compromises" due to the fact that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 had to compromise on numerous key points in order to create a new Constitution that was acceptable to each of the states.
The main reason why workers would have been reluctant to hold a strike in the early years of the factory system is because there were few jobs available, and those with jobs did not want to risk losing them over a strike.
