Hollitz Working Conditions

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With all of the different working conditions, wages, races, and experience that we saw is Hollitz chapter 2, we can make a generalization that the worker’s level of distress was high. There are three questions that come to mind. First, overall do the working conditions appear to be improving or getting worse? Second, What do workers think about their conditions? Third, would you agree to what William Sumner said that it was not the role of the government to improve the conditions of the working classes, the claim of some writers that employers treated workers as a mere commodity, Sumner also asserted, was “ludicrous” in the “cold light of reason?” After some reading all the sources I can say that conditions got worse then were fixed later, some workers did not like their jobs, and I do not agree with Sumner’s argument. In researching the first question, “do the working conditions appear to be approving or getting worse?” After looking through the sources it looks like the conditions get worse at first then when the government finally stepped in they are…show more content…
In the end I chose to disagree with him in that I was the role of the government to improve the working condition of the working classes. From all of the working conditions that these workers had to face in source one, to striking to work in source four, five and six. From what women had to endure in their jobs in sources seven, eight and nine, and seeing that kids where starting to work at age ten and the psychological effect on children in sources ten, eleven, and twelve. I’m glad the government interjected and created labor laws and department of labor, now the working conditions can improve, women are treated the same in the work force, and the child labor is prohibited. Just by looking at source eleven, I was in shock by how many kids in the thousands were working trying to get money for the

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