Working Conditions During The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution had many problems with its cities and citizens due to urbanization, child labor, working conditions, and wages. The first problem was the average man's working conditions and wages. In the factories an average worker had to work 6 days a week, serving 12-14 hours of labor everyday with poor pay. Machinery was extremely dangerous, filthy, and lung disease was common. As a result of these poor conditions in the factories, workers were either fired, dead, or lost a limb. Despite the conditions in the factories children had it worse. In the factories children worked equally as hard as men, but were only paid 10% of their earnings. They were often uneducated and poorly fed due to the need to support their families. This
lead to many children being deformed and having a shorter life expectancy of 19 years. Despite these conditions in the factories, cities were almost equally as bad. Ever since the huge boom in population, housing was quickly constructed. Since there was no public sewage system the streets were often filthy and riddled with disease. People often had to share a living space because they could barely afford a home. Since housing was quickly constructed, it usually had poor infrastructure and sometimes toilets had to be shared. One result of the population boom was that crime rate quickly went up since there was no proper law enforcement. Overall, the Industrial Revolution had many negative effects on the people. Cities were often filled with crime, disease, and filth while factories were filled with injuries, death, deformations, and smog.