People were paid based on skill (power of the strongest) but when mechanics advanced everyone was set back to original standard kinda sounding like smith a little bit. As unions were formed they had to maintain solidarity. Rousseau foretold at the end of his Discourse of Inequality how a man would rise above the others and try to "weaken the working class solidarity" and do this to always keep themselves on top. He said "the man was instilled by force so must be taken down by force" which relates directly to the strikes and riots that were brought about because of poor quality of conditions at the working site. He foretold that the people would revolt and they did in epic proportions. They put the people in the worst conditions put endless pressures on the to perform. This brought the uprising of individuals looking for power, political power. They were told that could get this power by going to a union and usually were turned away because "new members spelled trouble" of radical ideas that would deviate from the original intentions of the union. From this point it escalated and and turned into a full blow out that resulted in the death of many. Unions do still have a certain political power and still have to compromise with their industries and have not fully moved to what Rousseau deems as "the new state of nature" but I believe we are on our way.
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