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This is why workplace safety regulations exist and why part of those requirements is that workers are informed of the hazards they are going to encounter during work.
People who are broadly anti regulation are fools or villains. Fools don't know history and villains don't care. Sometimes people are both.
no no, the invisible hand of the market will fix it! it's just, sometimes, the fix is death. Oh, and child labor.
I assume unions fighting for these regulations would play as a significant reason for the safety regulations in this case? I could be wrong but I don't believe these regulations came from concerns for the workers as much as the workers fighting for these rights even in the Radium Girls scenario.
The means wasn't really what I was aiming to point out. I was more communicating solely the motive for those regulations, whether fought for by workers or instated by bureaucracy.