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    governments accountable if they violate the rights of their people. There researchers said they interviewed meatpacking workers and examined injury reports‚ government and academic studies‚ newspaper reports and legal proceedings. They cited unsafe working conditions‚ denial of workers ’ compensation to those injured on the job‚ intimidation of those seeking to organize unions and exploitation of immigration status to ward off complaints. Two of three corporations used as case studies responded to the researchers:

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    Working today is usually quite safe. The government has made laws saying that employers have to look after the workforce and provide safety equipment and other things for them. At the start of the Industrial Revolution none of these laws existed and so working in a factory could prove to be very dangerous indeed. This section looks at some of the conditions faced by workers and offers a brief explanation of what was done to improve these conditions. Industries such as the cotton trade were particularly

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    hour week‚ with time and a half pay for any overtime hours. Our minimum wage in New York State is six dollars an hour‚ and that is soon to be raised to $6.75 an hour on January 1‚ 2006. We are provided‚ for the most part‚ with healthy and safe working environments. In Chinese society it is nothing like this. Since the difference between the rich and poor is a lot greater in China than it is here‚ many of the poor jump at the opportunity to work in a factory or sweatshop job. They are very low

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    Factories in the North In the 1800’s the working conditions were harsh and unfair. By the mid-1800’s‚ more and more things were made by machines. Clothes‚ guns‚ watches‚ shoes‚ and farming machines were made by machines. By the 1840’s the average workday was 11.4 hours. The workers were very tired and have a huge chance of getting injured because many factory machines moved quickly. Workers‚ especially children‚ were often hurt by their machines. Factories had no cooling or heating systems. During

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    First‚   the   general   situation   of   exploitation   of   workers   will   be   explored.   Abuses   including   unpaid   wages‚   wages   below   contract   pay‚   unsafe   working   conditions  are  common  in  China.  Although  a  new  pro-­‐labor  contract  law  was  put   forward  in  2008‚  the  problem  still  prevails.  It  seems  that  the  crux  of

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    Just imagine your life working all day everyday.TO BEGIN WITH factories started to find a new source of labor to run their machines whitch was little CHILDEREN.A driven machine started to replace hand labor for making certain items. Then child labor started to be a major problem. CHILDEREN had terrible working conditions and low life expecting. FACTORIES system split up families for a lot of hours. Poverty children and families were poor barely ate food and moms and dads had to work also with the

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    Questions on Working Conditions 1. Why did the factory system develop? The development of the factory system came predominantly as a result of the advancements involving technology‚ specifically machinery and its abilities and efficiencies. As a result of these developments‚ a huge shift in the way that Britain’s workforce functioned was able to take place. Fundamentally‚ this meant that as these machines were now being placed in buildings solely built for manufacturing and production of a mass

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    |Black women received half the wages the white women earned" (46-47). These| |Racial division of labor |statements about the tobacco industry describe the condition of many | | |African-Americans‚ especially those living in the south and west | |3. |Carpenters in Boston

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    The living and working conditions in Australia‚ at the start of the century depended very much on which social class a person belonged to because the society followed ‘laissez-faire’ policies‚ that is‚ the government interfered little in economic affairs and left people to look after themselves. Therefore‚ between the rich and the poor there were enormous differences in living conditions such as education‚ health and hygiene and in particular leisure. For average Australians work was very laborious

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    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

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