Things have just gotten more politically correct, because now every employee could record your Pinkertons beating up people and share it with the whole world.
Don't think things have changed for any other reason that we forced them to do that.
We did not. Unless you are seventy. The changing laws of our country that make unions less useful have also gotten rid of private armies.
> The struggle is still the same.
Wow, no. Not at all. Not having people willing or able to hurt you kinda makes all the difference.