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Tourist railways. People volunteer to get up at 3am and do jobs that 150 years ago were incitements to socialist revolution.
'Work is anything you have to do', as the saying goes. However, I suspect if we looked, we would find that the working conditions 150 years ago would be vastly different from those volunteers' jobs. (Possible differences: 16-hour working days, emitted pollution, ergonomics like 'chairs'...)