It is mean when people do not help right
The responsibilities of labor unions included: organizing workers promoting better collective bargaining between laborers and employers forcing corporations to consider the plight of their workers passing labor legislation hiring factory workers.
Spain and France were also among the strongest in Europe, with Portugal being a player early on because of their sea worthiness and exploration. I can’t recall of Portugal’s decline had already started by the beginning of the 17th Century, but it was getting close.