Industrial Revolution: Working and Living Conditions
working and living conditions during the industrial revolution
-Extremely bad.
-In the book " The Jungle " by Upton Sinclair, the author detailed the appalling conditions faced by the workers of the meat-packaging industry.
"There were men who worked in the cooking rooms, in the midst of steam and sickening odors, by artificial light; in these rooms the germs of tuberculosis might live for two years, but the supply was renewed every hour. There were the beef-luggers, who carried two-hundred-pound quarters into the refrigerator-cars; a fearful kind of work, that began at four o'clock in the morning, and that wore out the most powerful men in a few years. There were those who worked in the chilling rooms, and whose special disease was rheumatism; the time limit that a man could work in the chilling rooms was said to be five years. "
Men and Women
-People had to work for about 12 to 16 hours a day
-They worked under very harsh working conditions. -the machines had no safety devices -workers were constantly at risk of losing a finger, a limb or their lives -Workers were exposed to filthy air filled with lint with damaged their lungs. -Women were paid half of what they would pay a man.
Children and Family
-With the father going to work in a different location as a result of the industrial revolution family relations were weakened and discipline suffered as a result
-Children had to put extremely long hours: -Also had to work 12 hours and 6 days a week without any holidays off. -Because of this, the children working in mines sometimes fell asleep and were crushed to death or badly injured by the mine carts.
-The work conditions: poor and miserable. -Some children got beaten -Endless hunger -No sleep time
-They were very poor paid and worked in dangerous and violent surroundings.
-There was no law to protect workers, and even when a few were passed they were
-Extremely bad.
-In the book " The Jungle " by Upton Sinclair, the author detailed the appalling conditions faced by the workers of the meat-packaging industry.
"There were men who worked in the cooking rooms, in the midst of steam and sickening odors, by artificial light; in these rooms the germs of tuberculosis might live for two years, but the supply was renewed every hour. There were the beef-luggers, who carried two-hundred-pound quarters into the refrigerator-cars; a fearful kind of work, that began at four o'clock in the morning, and that wore out the most powerful men in a few years. There were those who worked in the chilling rooms, and whose special disease was rheumatism; the time limit that a man could work in the chilling rooms was said to be five years. "
Men and Women
-People had to work for about 12 to 16 hours a day
-They worked under very harsh working conditions. -the machines had no safety devices -workers were constantly at risk of losing a finger, a limb or their lives -Workers were exposed to filthy air filled with lint with damaged their lungs. -Women were paid half of what they would pay a man.
Children and Family
-With the father going to work in a different location as a result of the industrial revolution family relations were weakened and discipline suffered as a result
-Children had to put extremely long hours: -Also had to work 12 hours and 6 days a week without any holidays off. -Because of this, the children working in mines sometimes fell asleep and were crushed to death or badly injured by the mine carts.
-The work conditions: poor and miserable. -Some children got beaten -Endless hunger -No sleep time
-They were very poor paid and worked in dangerous and violent surroundings.
-There was no law to protect workers, and even when a few were passed they were