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.
Smeared in filth, he worked 16 hour days hand-sewing clothing in a derelict industrial unit from dusk until 1 a.m. He did not get paid for four months, and
There was no help for the families of injured or dead workers except for charity. 16. There was no welfare program or government help for the workers. 17. Workers put in 12 to 14 hour work shifts 6 days a week.
Our landlord is very cruel and charges us as much as he can for the shelter he provides. We live in what some would call “squalor”. Our rent is $1.50 a week for a single small room with no running water, sanitation, aeration, or light. This is very typical for our area¹. Like I said in the beginning, “If I do not live beyond this day…” this is because of the conditions in which we live are so unsanitary, it is a virtual breeding ground for diseases such as cholera.
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.
His working area was very harsh. He fined workers for being late and he also employed child labourers on low pay. Long term and wider effects of the water frame Today, most of the water frames have been discontinued. They have been replaced with electrical powered machines. The water frame took away many jobs of people who were skilled, but not fast enough to keep up with the machine.
Michael Coburn Ms. Jones Grade 11 English, Period 6 October 29, 2014 All Alone During the Great Depression, there were very little jobs to be had. People were forced to travel where ever work was. In order to live this way, they had no families, no friends, and no one to talk to. The life of a migrant worker during the Great Depression was a lonesome one. In the novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, two men, George Milton and Lennie Smalls, travel together as migrant farm workers.
In America, there was a depression, a period of economic decline and high unemployment in the Western industrialised nations like America. Men moved from place to place alone seeking work, never staying in a place long enough to form a relationship with anyone. The lack of health and safety standards on these ranches is shown through Candy's accident of losing his hand. Itinerant workers were cheap and plentiful and in 1930s America, had no job security, social security or pension arrangements. On the ranch in Soledad where this novelette is set, there are few strong relationships due to the short length of time men spend there.
Overall children were treated horribly and forced to work at young ages were children should never work at, all because of industrialization. .These problems just kept growing as I explained in my earlier paragraphs and it just made industrialization useless for many people. In conclusion, industrialization helped Canada in a way because of more immigrants but caused a lot of problems that no one really cared to
I thought that Haram had gone completely berserk, and didn’t know about the two feet that I had for hands. Even so, without pretext, he continued to get me started and tutored me. Of course I had wanted to quit about a week in, but Haram just couldn’t allow it even as he knew about my poor ability to coordinate my hands and feet. He pushed me and pushed me telling me that he won’t ever make me quit. Every day he stood next to me supervising my practice sessions and making the most out of correcting my mistakes.