It is a time when workers are taken for granted by their employers. Wages are low, hours are long and no one is secure.
Unemployment is the highest it has been in many years.
Families are suffering and there is an increasing number who have lost everything and are living on the streets of America. This could be a description of America in 1933, or even 1993. But it isn't. The year is 1893, and a small handful of courageous men have made a momentous decision. They will risk their jobs, their homes, even their ability to work in their chosen field for an idea whose time, they believe, has come.