Peter Hurst

“Between 1040 and 1745, only three English monarchs did not either invade Scotland or fight off an invasion from Scotland,”
― Jonathan Wilson, Two Brothers

“It’s difficult to definitively gauge the size of the gig or contract labor economy, but a 2018 Marist/NPR survey found that some 1 in 5 US workers participate in it.”
― Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

“Not only petty theft, but primitive forms of industrial rebellion – destroying a silk loom, throwing down fences when commons were enclosed, and firing corn ricks – were to be punished by death.”
― E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class

“In 1955, over 740,000 miners were employed in Britain; by 1990, there were fewer than 50,000.”
― Ron Ferguson, Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil NEW EDITION: A Chronicle of Coal, Cowdenbeath and Football