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Building upon your metaphor… In order to have leverage the laborers need a fulcrum in the form of alternative employment. Otherwise you are just moving them from abused and hungry to unemployed and starving.

Have you considered the possibility that the other side thinks the same about you?

That only works if the laborers have a viable plan B. If the alternative to a dangerous, dirty job is something worse, you’re not doing them any favors.

You’ll never win an argument by out hating your opponent.

I find that purely practical arguments without any political litmus tests are much more successful. My last summer road trip was 1,500+ miles with an out of pocket energy cost of $49. (Plus some free hotel charging.) That gets the attention of any hard core capitalist.

Politics and technology have become so intertwined that many, on both sides, cannot separate the two.