Compare the economic and social circumstances of the women, Esther, Mrs. Dickson, Mrs. Van Buren, and Mayme. Are any of the women in a better position than the others?…
Further, this era introduced child labor which was quite horrific--children working in mills, factories, and in coal mines where the conditions were dangerous and life expectancy was unbelievably…
disease. Consequently, life spans were shorter. It was difficult for families to grow. Towards the…
In the 1800’s I think the factory systems were bad people got very sick and hurt. They should have changed the working conditions because the factory systems were very bad. In document A the people said They had to work from 5 in the morning to nine or ten at night, and on Saturday's they had to work until 11-12 at night. They were dirty and people got diseases. In document C they said They broke elbows, scraped arms and got beat up. They could not tell the truth about there treatment or they would get in trouble. In conclusion, the factory systems were bad and it was not good for the workers.…
He claims that the poor were basically treated like animals, hoarded from the country in to the city, and forced to work ungodly hours in order to keep up with the demands of industrialization. Then the poor were forced to live in cramped quarters where no proper sanitation systems existed, and even clean drinking water was a luxury. Engels explains that because so many people were cramped into such small rooms for such a long period of time the air quality was severely polluted and this caused many health problems.…
By the mid-1800’s more things were made by machines in factories. The conditions in the factory were very horrible. The average work day was 11.4 hours! Workers became so very exhausted, they didn't want to do what they have been doing any longer. These workers and children get severely hurt by these machines. Factories that these people worked in had no cooling or heating systems in them so the workers, so in the winter people began to get horribly cold. There were also no laws what so ever to control the workers, so nobody was really safe working at all. Also, children worked in factories. They worked long and hard because they had to work six days a week and 12 hours a day! People wanted to stop what was happening because it was not safe…
Working conditions in a factory was dangerous, especially if it was a cotton factory. For work to be done in a cotton factory, the workplace had to be hot. Machinery was not always fenced off, so the workers were exposed to moving parts. If someone was not careful enough, they could end up getting seriously injured or even die. It was common for the workers to work twelve hour workdays. Working…
There were unhealthy conditions and air pollution from all the factories. Also, there were unfair and unsafe conditions in factories, which resulted in people having medical problems. For example, in document 1, someone is interviewing a worker from a factory. The worker exclaims that he began working at the age of 10; he worked from five in the morning to nine at night and had one period of 40 minutes in the 16 hours at noon for a meal. Also, he wasn’t educated and could only read, but not write. More examples of bad factory conditions are in document 2, where another factory worker was interviewed about their experience in the factories. The man has damaged lungs, improper leg muscles, and he would die in a year. His doctor says it was caused by dust in the factories, overworking, and an insufficient diet. His brother died from a bad cut from a machine and of infection. The worker also stated that he knows that nearly a dozen children died during the two and a half years that he worked there. These examples show that there were many negative effects of the Industrial…
In the late 1900s there was a spark with new technological advances making less but harder jobs. The new up rise created new job opportunities and made business people happy but it still had the problem or keeping the poor with bad living conditions and unhealthy jobs. Due to the need of money parents made cruel decisions towards there unwanted children. Kids were sold and forced to do harsh jobs, people lived in rage and terror, and people didn’t have a long lifespan due to the living conditions and the medical resources.…
The population growth, crime, and health were the top things that changed and became worse. With the population growing, poverty increased, especially in urban areas, and people lost so much. When everything started to happen and the immigrants started to migrate, the crime rate increased and the health rates decreased. Because so many people were starting their new lives in this new place, there were many diseases that started to go around and make people’s health drop, which started to cause other negative effects during this time. Besides all the pros and cons during this era, there was a reason why Mark Twain called it “the Gilded Age”.…
Industrialization produced a negative impact on society.The people in the United States industry went through a hard time working and earning money in the early 1900’s. There are 3 out of many reasons why people had a rough time, for example poor working conditions, lack of sanitation, and child labor. These reasons show a lot about what people are going through in the industry.…
Children were forced to work by their families, who couldn’t make enough on their own to support them. People were earning low wages, which often were barely enough to feed themselves. There was no federal minimum wage, so workers would work for whatever wage they would find. It was very difficult for them to get a financial foothold and raise themselves out of the working class. In addition to low wages, workers often had very poor working conditions. They had to work in cramped workplaces that were unsanitary and often were fire hazards. In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York killed 146 workers. There was only one unlocked stairwell down, and it was engulfed in flames. Workers crammed into the elevator, or tried to escape to the roof. Not only was the building not well equipped for people escaping a fire, but the emergency services were not ready for the catastrophe they had to deal with. The firefighters’ ladders were too short to reach the fire, and the ambulances had to make many trips back and forth to the hospital because they were so small. The conditions suffered by these workers were unjust, and would not be solved completely until much…
By the mid 1800s, machines began to take over the industrial economy. More and more machines began to be used to produce clothing, shoes, watches, guns, and farming supplies. The working conditions in the factories in the mid 1800s on the other hand, was very harsh and dangerous. It was very easy to get caught in a machine, and get badly injured. The average workday for employees was 11.4 hours a day. Not only was the machines moving at a rapid pace, but children that had to work, would end up getting caught in it.…
The employers of the industrial city took advantage of the growth of population, and exploited the migration of immigrants moving to the cities looking for work, along with the fact that there were no regulations to keep the businesses in check at the same time the growth of the city was so fast and the lack of education on sanitation, life for the immigrant was dirty and difficult. For example; in New York City 1870-1920, population grew from 942,292 to 5,620,040 with the percentages: Austria-Hungary 8%, Russia 8%, Italy 6%, England 6%, Ireland 30%, Germany 33%, and Other Foreign 9%. (Rise of the Industrial City: New Places, New Peoples) With such a growth and the need for workers along with the need for employment, businessmen took advantage of this to fuel their greed at the cost of people’s quality of life and health. There are eight basic categories that these affected; Income and Wealth, Child Labor, Working Conditions, Public Health and Length of Life, Rise of the Middle Class, Working Class Families, The Role of Women, and The conditions of living. So, what were the conditions of this time period, and what affects did they have, just how much of a role in this period did women have, and what kind of role did women have in causing there to be changes.…
The social consequences of the second industrial revolution were the impact it had on the quality of life for the urban family who previously spent time working around the home but now had to commute the city to work in factories. The work was more labor driven then working fields. It was all year round 12 hours a day. It caused exhaustion and even death. Woman had the brunt of this time. It was a difficult for a woman to keep up with her duties at home, which did not change because she was a factory worker. So the demands from her husband were large, compounded with the demands of work and harassment from bosses. On top of these issues a woman still had no rights to…