At times I had to move large rock piles from one place to another place that was about 10 feet apart, using just my hands and body strength. Sometimes I worked on the conveyer belt sorting rocks, or helped to build bins or chutes, that was used to put the rocks as we sorted them. I was always covered in dirt and grim from my work, that I felt I would never get clean. The second thing that was bad was the pay. I worked 60 to 72 hours a week for minimum wage of $2.85 hr., which didn’t give me much time with my family.
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.
Also, if I had to carry something over to the sink, I was always afraid to lose my grip. Answer to question #14a I don't have the strength nor stamina to do any kind of yard work not to mention, my allergies are kicking my butt. I have terrible sinus problems and watery eyes that I am trying to get under control. Laundry, I will start a load and not finish it because too much overload causes me to flare up. As for household chores, I have tried sweeping occasionally but because I have pain in my lower back it causes great discomfort.
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.
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. Along with working long hours, there were no safety rules, the people were prone to accidents from the poor working conditions and machinery. Many workers lost limbs, or sustained life altering injuries due to these working conditions (Wikipedia). Part B According to merriam-webster dictionary, Capitalism is an economic system of private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the
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 group from The Breakfast Club was forced into confinement for a whole day. They did not know each other previously, and most were being punished for whatever they did wrong. In addition, they hardly had anything in common and did not like each other from the start. They thought this Saturday would be the worst of their lives, but it turned out to be one of the most memorable. They complained and fought for the first hour or so but then they began to open up and talk to each other.
Looking back on my life, I have face challenges and paid consequences for my action. For example, the challenge that I had was I missed a lot of school days because I was often sick and sometimes I skipped classes, so when I backed to school I had to go to my every classes and make up all my missed work to catch up to my classes. Even though I did all my missing work sometimes it came up short to pass my course. When the work that I need to do is a test or exam it gives me a hard time to answer every question because of I did not come to my classes to understand the lessons that I was supposed to be learning. The consequences that I paid for my actions was I earned low grades for my classes because of not going to school everyday
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.
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.