Unions: No one, be they doctor or ditch-digger, has anything to sell but the actual hours of their life. Banding together into Unions helped end 7-day workweeks, child labor, and seriously unsafe conditions ("next!" ). This gave power to ordinary people. The establishment has been fighting Unions since they started, in the early days literally killing organizers & those who joined them. Repugs have Seriously undermined Unions in the last 40 or so years, a major reason for the decline of upward mobility & the middle class