- Anything to do with bodily waste, including the collection of urine or sewerage?
- Anything to do with dead things, animal or human?
- Were the workers doing a job considered by the society of the time to be taboo, unclean, impure or very low-status?
Ah, no.
KK
Were the workers :
- all male ?
- all female ?
- a mixture ?
Were the workers :
- children ?
- adults ?
- a mixture ?
Male and female adults.
Was the number of striking workers
less than 10?
less than 50?
less than 100?
less than 1000?
Were the workers government employees?
Was it a union strike
or was it a wildcat strike?
Did this take place:
- in the New World ?
- in Britain ?
- in the rest of Europe?
- somewhere else?
Government employees? Yes. I don’t know the number, though.
I don’t know.
Rest of Europe.
Is the particular country in Europe relevant?
Is the thing the workers did still being done today?
KK
Is the answer to the “where am I” part of the riddle meant to be more specific than 1700’s France? If so, would the specific answer to the “where am I” part make it easier to figure out the reason for the strike?
Did thir work have to do with transportation?
I just meant what kind of work is it.
Nope.
Did the workers strike for any kind of medical coverage?
Did the workers strike for improved non-work conditions from the government?
Did the workers strike for benefits of any kind?
Did the workers strike for reasons related to their type of work?
Did the workers strike over a human rights issue?
Did the workers strike over a superstition?
KK
Were the things being made:
- Anything to do with food?
- Anything to do with clothing?
- Something that might be found in a domestic household of the time?
Does this profession still exist today:
- in the Western world?
- somewhere else in the world?
KK
Did the workers work with wood? Did they make furniture?
No to both.
did they work with :
- metal ?
- glass ?
- cloth ?
- paper ?
- parts of animals ?
- parts of plants ?
Did the job require skilled craftsmen?
Was it something that anyone could do?