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Punctuation labor valuation

The practice of compensating printers by the letter set while excluding punctuation marks, which the strike challenged as an unjust and arbitrary division of labor.

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121 years ago, Russian printers went on strike over commas.

Commas can change meaning (“eats shoots and leaves” versus “eats, shoots and leaves” or “I ate, grandma” versus “I ate grandma”), but over a century ago, commas helped change the Russian government. In 1905, uprisings broke out all across the

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