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.
The author Wes Moore was a black male that lived in Baltimore as a young child but moved to The Bronx when he was a little older. He attended private school there before he was shipped off to Military school for his behavior. Their income was low. There was only one income from his mother, Joy, because his father died when he was young. The other Wes Moore also grew up in Baltimore and attended public school there.
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.
His family was put in Debtors Prison in 1824. Charles Dickens didn’t agree with Victorian attitude towards the poor-he had a social conscience. Later he wrote “A Christmas Carol” to show just how poor people were being treated. Cities grew and people flocked to them to work in factories, there were rich and poor classes living together in the city. At this time Victorian society was a very Christian society.
I kept this child for 6 days in which he had told me many stories of being at home with mom and dad whom were both alcoholic and poverty stricken. This child had done numerous unruly things and would fly off the handle many times throughout the day. A foster family finally took him in and I would see them periodically from week to week and they would say he was doing good, he needed guidance and someone to listen to him more than anything. When I last seen the foster parents after about 9 months of having the child I was shocked to hear that they no longer had him because he had stabbed one of their other foster children with his pencil. They said he did well at first, but seemed to have some psychological problems that were stemming from his home life.
Some of the slums residents lack any type of shelter and are forced to sleep outside, rats commonly bite people while they try to sleep, and barely a handful of the 3,000 residents of the slum are lucky enough to have full time employment. The conditions caused by the poverty in this slum were so harsh that Abdul, a kid who has to support a family of 11, and other residents are forced to turn to buying and selling the things that the richer people, from the nearby airport and hotels, throw away in means of
He and Esperanza were in love with each other but could not marry because of the different classes. Miguel was very poor but he was hard working and caring. An example of how Miguel was a caring person was when he took all of Esperanza’s money orders from Mr. Yakotas shop and then left Los Angeles and went to Aguascalientes to bring the money orders so that Abuelita so that she can come to the United States. Esperanza is a dynamic character; she changed throughout the story from starting as a little spoiled girl to becoming a poor understanding and caring young woman. Although Esperanza was dynamic, Mama and Miguel were static characters.
In an interview Thomas O’Donnell explains “…at Fall River if a man has not got a boy to act as “back-boy” it is very hard for him to get along…in many cases discharging men in that work and put in men who have boys…and that has brought my circumstances down very much…our children are very often sickly of not having sufficient clothes, shoes, food or something” (64, 65). Any immigrant that didn’t have a child did not stand a chance to work in that factory. Although, some immigrants without children were lucky and did have work for a few months at a time, but were later let go for unnecessary
Many of these women are not only forced to support themselves, but they are also now forced to be the sole caretakers of the children from the marriage. As divorce rates continue to rise, combined with today’s economy, many of these women are forced to take care of these children on their own as their ex-husbands are not able to, or do not want to pay child support. “The United States has one of the highest percentages of children living in poverty among, because the majority of them are living in mother-headed households” (DiNitto and McNeece). Although the children are both the mother’s and father’s responsibility, many times the mothers are left alone as the fathers figure out ways to avoid their financial responsibilities. As such, many of these formerly unskilled women are now forced to learn a trade and join the workforce.
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,