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.
Children were forced to work at a young age making them in a way lose their childhood, and making them grow up way sooner than they needed to. By doing this children lost the opportunity to get a quality education and instead were made to focus mainly on work and helping dad provide for the family. These children were mentally, physically, and morally abused. Children were paid insignificant wages and were forced to work almost twelve hours a day to the point where they seemed like they were slaves. “They were routed out of their beds by the boss at 3 A.M and worked until about 4 P.M” (Hine)People were forced to live in terrible conditions that at times were harmful because disease became rampant and spread.
Tenement houses within these cities became incredibly crowded and crammed along narrow paths or streets. Whole families were living in attics, cellars, or single rooms, with one house holding up to 60 people in multiple rooms. Sanitation was not common in a lot of cities even making clean water for the rich a luxury. Sewers ran down streets, wide-open, carrying water fouled with industrial and human waste. Tuberculosis, typhoid and cholera were diseases that developed in many cities killing thousands.
In picture A, its showing children with lost limbs while at work. This means the factories they worked in were very dangerous. In Document J, it's an interview between the interviewer and a child who works in a factories. The child had said he worked from 6am to 8pm and if he was ever late, he was severely beaten as he said. Children worked long hours, not adults but children and they received consequences for just being late.
Jake Stadtlander Mr. Pachuta World Studies 15 May 2013 Industrial Working Conditions ` The life of people in the mines or factories in the early 1800's was very harsh. They work very long hours and in poor conditions as well. These people were also not paid very well. They were paid well below minimum wage in correlation with today. Kids, starting at very early ages, worked as well with no remorse for them.
Many workers lost hearing from loud machinery, lost limbs in hazardous equipment, and even lost their life due to the apathy of factory owners. The pay for such jobs remained meager despite these risky conditions. The average blue collar employee received $3.50 an hour, barely enough to get by in society. To make matters worse, workers were forced to work long hours during the week, usually over ten hours a day for six to seven days a week. With such appalling conditions, industrial workers were forced into action.
Women and young children often worked at very hard and often dangerous tasks. 20. There was a lot of ignorance, diseases, and drunkenness in the factory town. 21. All of these were the bad sides of the Industrial Revolution.
Those people suffered badly and eventually died. Because of this, many children fought their lives without their fathers, which led to families’ financial problems. Economically, many labourers got drunk and so they could not perform the job properly. The absence from work each week was very high, therefore the company was less efficient. The company could not afford to produce the same products in the time that they should and the industrialists were not satisfied.
Men struggled to maintain and find jobs to support his family, and women struggled to put food on the table and care for her children with the little or no money that the men brought home. Many schools were forced to close down because the lack of money to stay open, three million children between seven and seventeen had to leave school and almost 40% young people between the ages of 16 to 24 were not working nor in school. Many children
The harsh effects of the labor life took its toll on its most vulnerable victims by depriving them of their childhood and exposing them to horrific conditions. By definition, child labor is work that harms or keeps children away from school. Throughout history, children have always