At the end of the 19th century, enlightened employers undertand that to produce better and faster, they must treat their workers well and feed them better. Line work develops after the first world war, and Taylorism gains ground after peace is restored. The Russian revolution gives hope to an entire generation of workers, but the attempts to take up arms are crushed by the ruling classes. Italian fascism ag German nazism take power by pretending in the name of the mythical "worker ", but soon decalre the end of the class struggle.