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Comment by albumen

Workaccount2 beat me to it. But it's well documented, e.g. https://qz.com/1314814/universal-education-was-first-promote...

"Much of this education, however, was not technical in nature but social and moral. Workers who had always spent their working days in a domestic setting, had to be taught to follow orders, to respect the space and property rights of others, be punctual, docile, and sober. The early industrial capitalists spent a great deal of effort and time in the social conditioning of their labor force, especially in Sunday schools which were designed to inculcate middle class values and attitudes, so as to make the workers more susceptible to the incentives that the factory needed."

parent albumen 3 years ago

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