The workers accepted the conditions at the factories because if they didn't..... they would be fired and without work. These people were desperate for money, thus, very few of them made waves.
Simone de Beauvoir, a French author who was of great importance to the emergence of the post war women's liberation movement. In 1949, she published her highly influential work, The Second Sex. As a result of male-dominated societies, she argued, women had been defined by their differences from men and consequently received second-class status. Her book influenced both the American and European women's movements.
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Faking illness was a common method of slave resistance to enforced labor
The First Amendment protects the right of individuals and groups to petition the US government. People with particular economic or social concerns often form interest groups to influence lawmakers to act on their behalf. Powerful and influential groups called political action committees have also arisen to finance political campaigns, mostly on a national level.