Economic Inequality In The Early Nineteenth-Century

The working-class people resisted economic inequality in the early nineteenth century throughout various cities in forms of chaotic movements such as demonstrations in riots and strikes. Men and women constructed and collaborated in creating of each own union group in the fight against inequality through involvement of strikes and uprising protests for the better their livelihood.
During the time when Civil War ended, people and soldiers returning home to their normal lives encountered another fight for survival in the country’s evolving industrial economic struggle. With the lack of employment, living conditions was a challenge for many especially the poor people. While the rich received fresh portable water and everyone else drank from water filled with sewage contaminated. The working class in Philadelphia lived in apartment with no garbage removal, no toilets, no fresh air or water. The poor people of New York lived on the streets with the garbage with no sewers, filthy water that drained into the alleys and cellars causing typhoid epidemic. The rich gave little to no attention for the poor and their complaints of suffering in their harsh slum environment. Angered and frustrated from the long hours in the factories, combined with the sudden economic crises leading to
With the creation of the National Labor Union, black workers organized and formed their own unions and carrying out their own strikes. Negroes joined forces with the women, declaring that the National Labor Union recognized “neither color nor sex on the question of the rights of labor” when most unions would reject blacks. Irish immigrants went on strike for higher wages while attacking homes of those who would not go on strike in turn caused hatred between Irish Catholic and native-born Protestant over issues of