Although wages increased at the end of the nineteenth century, many people still lived in horrible poverty. They faced problems of: • Poor housing. • Low wages. • Unemployment. • Illness (if a worker was ill he/she could not earn money).
Sinclair had attacked the corruption of industries, especially the meat-packing industry in this popular book, The Jungle, which led to the passage of a federal legislation, the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, to address the problems in these industries. Furthermore, Sinclair had attacked the industries for being self-serving and too ignorant of the lives of the workers. In The Jungle, Sinclair had depicted the poor lives of immigrant and workers working for American industries. In short, the Sinclair was critical of the wealth created in the industrialization and had questioned the asserted values of industrialization by exposing the corruption and the poor lives of workers. Sinclair had greatly differed from Carnegie in that he had wrote genuinely to expose the social and industrial ills and problems that America faced during and shortly of
eating, wearing, experimenting) animals. It is the animal cruelty involved in manufacturing animals that generates a moral concern. The farming industry in particular, carries the burden of feeding a massive population, forcing the industry to maximize farming productivity to fulfill consumer demand through the use of large-scale industrial farming techniques. In order for farming industries to gain any-sort of profit corners are cut to produce remunerative earnings. For years the industry has made efforts to convert their manufacturing process of converting animals to food from the public.
Christina Rodriguez David Tait History 2493 February 8, 2013 Andrew Carnegie, an “Industrial Statesman” Industrial leaders of the nineteenth century were considered “baron robbers” because of the harsh treatments of their employees, the low wages that were paid to the employees, the harsh work conditions that no one was allowed to complain about, and the long work hours that were being forced upon them because they knew that the workers were desperate and needed the money to provide for their families. The business owners abused the power they had over the employees often by hiring others to do a job and those men would turn around and hire local men for lower wages and at times pocketing a huge profit. Most of the business owners would know of the side dealings but would turn a blind eye. These leaders displayed ruthless ethics, which destroyed their competitors, in order to satisfy their own greed. However, Andrew Carnegie was no angel in the business world; however, he can be considered more of an “industrial statesman” because he worked his way to his position of wealth through hard work.
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.
The Jungle Kendall Paris July 13, 2012 Life in industrial America, particularly for immigrants and working class people was a big struggle. There were so many hardships that they had to go through such as: working conditions, unjust businessmen/wages, and poverty/starvation. “So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed. If one could only manage to get the price of passage, he could count his troubles at an end.” (Pg. 27) Most of the immigrants are tricked into the beliefs that they can find steady work, high wages, and a comfortable life in America.
Many people became unemployed and were no longer able to support their families. People were starving and felt ashamed and humiliated. The government was blamed and used
The cows have no say in what they have to eat so they are pretty much fed toxic garbage. Next, the food industry should be changed because each burger contains one-hundred different pieces of cows. Imagine people eating all of the cows on one farm. John White, a meat farmer, said that people are always calling him, complaining about people getting sick because of eating two bites of a burger and he is tired of it. Before, tobacco farming was very popular, but now it has changed to meat farming.
During this time, the state made several cuts to social care. This affected the social service industry greatly. The State of Illinois was the largest contributor to the agency for its duration, and had become delinquent with payments. This has affected the employees of Hull House as they are not receiving timely reimbursements, unable to carry out all work duties because of the reduction in hours, and receiving lower wages. The workers were not visiting the clients on a weekly basis as mandated by DCFS and paperwork was consistently late.
The reason of that is because the stock market was doing badly, there were overproduction and a crash which is stock prices go down. Many people lost their jobs and those that were still working had to take major pay cuts, and people who were trying to get a job couldn’t because the employees couldn’t pay them. Banks were closing, people were losing their life saving. A large percent of business and factories were closing On Black Thursday, The Wall Street Crash of 1929, October 24 also known as the Great Crash was terrible, it was the worse stock market crash ever. There was a huge crowd of people trying to withdrew there life saving but couldn’t.