Company treatment of its "most valuable assets" have not always been especially good. Sailors, for instance, were treated brutally from the days of cat-o'-nine-tails onward. The La Follette Seamen's Act of 1915 helped solve this issue. It required decent treatment and a living wage on American ships.
If you became disabled in your line of work, that tough. Workers' Compensation did not exist before 1916, before the Workers' Compensation Act. This Act gave assistance to federal civil-service employees when they were disabled from injury or disease.
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