These group of people were very poor and struggled to survive day to day. The working class tended to work 12-16 hours a day, 6 days a week, with almost no breaks, in extremely harsh factory settings. They struggled to survive, while being paid very low wages. The often lived in tenements, multi-story apartment buildings. They were provided with no running water or sewage, which meant all of the waste went into the streets, washing out into the rivers, leaving the water contaminated.
The workers were not visiting the clients on a weekly basis as mandated by DCFS and paperwork was consistently late. There was chronic absenteeism, a high level of turnover, low morale, and low job satisfaction among the employees. All of the above issues adversely affect the level of care and services being provided to the client. How can Hull House Association communicate change in an effort to increase employee satisfaction and organizational productivity? Hull House’s leadership was not supportive of staff at that time.
Many immigrants had to deal with poor living and working conditions (OK). Immigrants were paid low wages, so they had to live in tenements (Document 1). Tenements were crowded, unsanitary, and unsafe apartments that were very small (OK). Diseases spread quickly due to the overcrowding (OK). They were unsafe because there were no regulations on how they were built.
Most people who worked in the factories lived in the factories which had little living space, lack of proper ventilation and lack of proper hygiene (Wikipedia). Due to the poor living conditions and overcrowding people were subject to health issues and death related from communicable diseases. Along with the poor living conditions, hunger and malnutrition were common during this time. Labor laws did not exist. Workers worked long hours without breaks and children were also subjected to these cruel working conditions as they were often put to work alongside their parents.
They were usually beaten by their masters if they weren’t working hard enough or had a problem with what they were doing. Adults did this to children because kids back then were easy to push around and didn’t stand up for themselves and even if they did, owners of the factories could get rid of the child and hire another since there were so many orphans out for a job. The owners of the factories weren’t as pleasant either; they used violent means to drive children. In England the Factory Act of 1802 stopped this pauper-apprentice work system, but the law did not apply to children who had parents. Children still worked in the mills for twelve hours a day at the mercy of often tyrannical supervisors.
Migrant workers lived on the plantation in either little shacks, or canvas tents, and worked more than 10 hours a day, for not much pay. These workers in the fields relied on their pay, and now they were not getting paid, and that angered the workers. The angered workers were finally seeing their inhumane living conditions for what they were. As the rain poured, their canvas tents were soaking wet with rainwater, and the floor, which was the ground, was covered in mud. “The beating rain worked at the canvas until it penetrated and sent streams down…” (554).With all this rain coming to the California valley, sickness and disease also hit the plantation.
Women were another vulnerable group because they were always paid at a lower rate than men. There was no safety net for people who fell into poverty other than resorting to the ‘workhouse’ which had been established to deal with cases of extreme poverty in Trade unions had little power as the Taff Vale Incident of 1901 showed and Friendly Societies could only provide a limited amount of help. Attitudes to poverty in the early 20th century were quite unsympathetic many politicians from both the Liberal and Conservative party felt that poverty came from personal laziness. Both parties had an attitude of “laissez-faire” i.e. non interference from the government.
The city revolved around a “survival of the fittest” manner and would chew you up only to spit you back out for another beating if you didn’t comply. The unfair techniques politicians used to scam elections made it close to impossible for the weak to gain any strength. So the days carried on for the immigrants, who mainly worked in factories. Low pay kept the people on a tight working schedule and made it tough to live. The conditions were so bad many people ended up unable to work due to sickness or death from either the meat or exhaustion.
Being stressed out because of| | |work can cause you not to like your job, lose sleep at night, become irritated with co-workers, cause | | |headaches, and lower your morale. | |Identify a situation in which you experienced stress in the workplace or provide a |I was a manager at a restaurant at the time. Usually I worked by myself up until an hour before lunch, | |fictional example. |because it was too slow to have any employees there any earlier. This one day my employee was running | | |late.
The working conditions were horrible, since commonly men and children have to work for long hours a day with little pay. The healthy conditions of the factories were low, and the chances of children dying were high since they were needed to fit through the machines to operate and turn it off. If the child fainted or fell asleep in the machine well let’s just say it's not a pretty picture, but it was what happened. The Industrial Revolution was a major change in the nature of production in which machines replaced tools and steam and other energy sources replaced human power.The Industrial Revolution began in England in the middle 1700s. During the Industrial Revolution, workers became more productive, items were manufactured, prices dropped,