The initiative of the government to take interest of the works, modernization of the infrastructure, opening of schools, providing proper sanitations and bringing about health and water facilities (Urbanization During the Industrial Revolution, 2010). The formation of labor unions during the first Industrial revolution brought a surge of new workers into the workplace. Because of the abundance of laborers available made individual workers expendable and led to decreased wages (Hackett, 1992). Underage workers were also heavily present in many jobs. Health and safety conditions in the workplace were poor and workers had little recourse.
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most of the people migrated from farms to cities, also known as urbanization. As majority of the people originated from farms, they were not experienced to the technological machinery used in the new industrial city, imposing a harsh new way of life on workers. As the result, workers suffered accidents from machines with no safety devices, resulting in severed body parts or even death, with the exception of the dangerous working conditions and environments with the exception of the Luddites . Women and children were employed or hired due to stereotypical reasons, however every worker was affected from the conditions and situations as rapid urbanization caused decreased wages and a increased spread of diseases. If a worker was or found to be ill or injured, they will lose their job.
There were limited privileges: not many people voted, and they were not allowed to do anything to improve their working conditions that were legal. There were other groups affected by the industrial revolution, and this section will discuss five specific groups that were affected by the Industrial Revolution. The first group affected was the immigrants. During parts of the 19th century, there were uncommon limitations on immigration as the mounting numbers of factories offered chances for low-cost employment. Due to the different ethnicities, many immigrants found the transition to American life quite difficult, despite their efforts to ease the transition by assimilation into U.S. society.
Working and Living Conditions during the Industrial Revolution Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, England went through many changes. In the working and living conditions there were many changes and some people, like the working class, didn´t have neither working or living conditions. Children had to work and they had horrible working conditions and unhealthy lives. In England around the year 1832 the working conditions for kids were terrible; they worked sixteen hours a day and just had a period of forty minutes to rest in the sixteen hours. That was at noon.
This shows that the living conditions were truly poor and many people faced troubles during the harsh times. In Document 9 the Royal Commission of Labour in India reported that the wages did not change during the past years and all of the dedicated workers. The royal commission also reported that many of the workers are poor people that lived in small villages and were often recruited to work in the factories much to the similarity of the report of Document 5 where the industrialist also tells the tale of the workers and how they were often poor and comes from farming communities. There is also no recording of the Indian worker’s lives even if it were third party or a first person recollection of how their time was working for the factory/company was. The effects of the industrial revolution were almost miraculous as many of the factories and cotton business boomed during this time period.
The children of the poor families were targeted the most. Since they were poor they were forced to go work in factories, this was considered child labour but they couldn’t do anything about it since they had no money. These children had there future planned out for them they would work in the factories, since they would not be able to afford to go to school. This caused more poverty in Canada since they would still be working for little pay, so industrialization really didn’t make this issue any better for most people in the society especially children. Overall children were treated horribly and forced to work at young ages were children should never work at, all because of industrialization.
Vocational education has helped some students and provided people with more qualifications so they have a better chance of getting a job but they have not reduced social inequality. Both middle class students and working class have benefited from new vocationalism. Vocational education and training schemes provides the opportunity for student who find traditional subjects harder or not interested in them, so it is an opportunity because vocational subjects are seen as easier and different more practical. These vocational subjects were free so interested working class. The reason why new vocationalim was introduced was because there were wasn’t a balance of academic jobs and practical so it was introduced to promote practical work.
These workers were also crippled but enlightened by industrialisation meaning that again opposition increased. Because the government was putting as much money as possible into industrialising, wages stayed very low, causing many workers to live in horrific cramped conditions, which were prone to widespread disease due to the overcrowding. Taxes increased, worsening the workers financial problems and after being told that their hardship was to fund industrialisation for an eventual better Russia for everyone, in 1902 there was an industrial slump, which made it seem to the workers that their efforts were in vain. This increased opposition because the workers were looking for someone to
The Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the advent of gross urbanization of factory towns and cities. Due to advancements in areas such as textiles and machinery, many people flocked from the country sides of Europe (particularly Britain) to cities where they sought work was factory operators and machinists. To accommodate the tremendous influx of people, cheap and cramped housing was built, with communal wells provided for water. However, as there were few facilities for removing sewage, and the living conditions were deplorable, disease became rampant. Typhoid fever, cholera, tuberculosis, smallpox and rabies were infectious agents which followed the bubonic plague, and found easy hosts in the unclean slums
Labor Unions Labor unions are organized to stand for the rights of employees in certain fields and industries. The standard labor union represents its association by negotiating employees pay, benefits, safety, and security issues. Labor unions came about during the industrial era of America in which they were very helpful to workers. The workers of that era worked for poor wages while also working under dangerous working conditions and as well as minimal legal representation. Unions improved much of those harsh conditions for the workers by helping them avoid exploitation by their employers.