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TIL After the big banking crisis of Florence in 1340 which wrecked the economy, an obscure laborer named Ciuto Branditi single handedly tried to organise his fellow wool workers into a union. He held assemblies and collected tithes for strike funds. His arrest caused a strike in the wool industry

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