the Black Death really had it all: labor shortage caused by global pandemic, employers outraged that workers demand higher wages and better conditions, complaints that “nobody wants to work anymore,” elites using the power of the state to weaken labor rights

“England in the Aftermath of the Black Death” (Hatcher, 1994)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/651142.pdf

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