Programmers, dentists, and even contract soldiers are all hired personnel and need to have their rights protected, just like the medieval "wool scalpers."
By the way, 196 independent countries in the world have 143 that celebrate International Labor Day on May 1. In post-Soviet societies, this day is still called the Day of Workers' Solidarity, but this date has lost its ideological and class coloration. The solidarity of employees has a very practical meaning: it means wages and pensions that allow for a decent living, protection from employers' arbitrariness, and support after dismissal while looking for a new job.
Workers' rights, Ukrainian nuances
There is a widespread but erroneous belief that the initiators of labor movements, which later grew into movements for the rights of wider segments of the population, were left-wing socialist and social democratic parties. In fact, professional movements realized that they needed to defend and realize their demands by changing the rules. There were two ways to achieve this goal - either violently, through armed confrontation with the state, or by first overcoming the restrictions on the ability to elect their representatives. To do so, they organized parties and gained political representation in the legislature, changing legislation.
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