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    slaves to the industry and were subjected to low wages‚ poor living conditions‚ long hours‚ and poor working conditions. The extremely low salaries forced workers to stay working to try and provide necessary items for their families. Food ran scarce in families and cramped houses and tenement apartments had little light‚ hardly any fresh air‚ and awful plumbing and waste management. Workers were forced to live in these harsh conditions‚ because this was the only thing they could afford. Families

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    Living Conditions in the City and Country Man has always been attracted to city life. From the ancient Egyptians we see that city life was very important. Cities were the cultural backbone of the civilization since it was a place of trading‚ working‚ and meeting with one another. This trend is beginning to change though as we become more technologically advanced. People are moving out of the city and into the country or suburb areas. These days people are concerned about pollution‚ convenience‚ and

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    The working (lower class) in Australia mainly lived closer to the city‚ squashed together in the slums. Some examples are in Sydney – Pyrmont‚ Redfern and Surry Hills and in Melbourne – Collingwood‚ Richmond‚ Port Melbourne and Footscray. They lived at the bottom of hills where flooding enabled water borne diseases such as cholera and typhoid fever to breed spread throughout communities. Families of 10 were squeezed into inadequately sized‚ poorly insulated‚ iron houses where they struggled to pay

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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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    plethora of violent behavior and barbarism had befallen upon them. While morality deteriorated and respect for human life seemed impracticable‚ the people of these times were being threatened to their extinction. Their hope in God grew weary as the living learned to expect not the graceful hand of the God they knew‚ but rather death at the hands of their spiteful enemies. Europe had lost a substantial number of its population and they were left with nothing else to do but wade through the sorrowful

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    Case Assignment 5: Working Conditions of the Meat Industry 20 June 2011 Recognition of the inherent dignity and of equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom‚ justice and peace in the world. Everyone has the right to life‚ liberty and the security of person. These few words pretty much sums up the mission of the Human Rights Watch (HRW)‚ an international non-governmental organization whose main focus is to ensure the wellbeing and the inherent

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    Working condition Many of us have heard of industrial revolution where everything started our neighbourhood and economy and how a revolution of our technology started during the 1800s. it was any time when people acquire. it was an occasion which predominantly‚ societies inside U. S and also Britain became professional and urban. Before in Industrial Wave‚ which began in Britain inside late 1700s‚ creation was often accomplished in people’s residences‚ using basic house tools and or maybe simple

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    Lowell. While Lowell operatives were certainly subject to the harsh work conditions‚ paternalistic gender relations‚ and expected religious standards of the day‚ the inherent stability of the Lowell

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    I.R.? Introduction The government has made laws saying that employers have to look after the workforce and provide safety equipment and other things for them. Because of this working today is pretty safe. 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. Industries such as the cotton trade were mainly hard for workers to endure long hours of labor. The nature of the work being done meant that

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    Accountancy Age: 40 years old Gender: Female Race: Chinese Nationality: Singaporean Work experience: 21 years Past occupation: Accountant/ General Accounts Manager Current occupation: Assistant Finance Manager Brief Background Jane is currently working as an Assistant Finance Manager with Ng Lee & Associates and has been there for almost 2 years. Being the mother of two children‚ Jane placed a huge emphasis on being able to spend quality time with her family. Thus‚ the major factors which influenced

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