With laissez-faire and social Darwinism, the government had no demand to interfere with big businesses, allowing them to make their own rules, safety conditions, and handle employees as they please. As a result, employees were faced with owners who no concern about their livelihood. The government did not have a responsibility to maintain safety standards, such as emergency exits, adequate fire hoses, and water source inside the buildings. Leaving these ‘burdens’ on factory owners meant safety measures were never taken. On March 25, 1911 when a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, many young women and men were then trapped and had no escape.
She became a teacher at the age of 16 and slowly saved money she earned which was one dollar a week. After nine years she’d save 75 dollars to go to Oberlin College in Ohio, the only college in the country at the time that gave degrees to women. Besides that, woman could not speak in public at all. Women during these times didn’t have many rights, but they did have grueling jobs and loads of responsibilities. Once married, a woman no longer had the rights to her belongings; her husband owned her clothes, jewelry, and her children.
Poor harvests, famine, a lack of freedom and repressive policies meant that Russia was a country that was teetering on the brink of revolution long before dissatisfied factory workers marched on the Winter Palace in St Petersburg. Some of the causes of the 1905 revolution were due to poor working and living conditions. For instance, up to 15 people would share one room to live in, because of this demonstrations such as the one outside the Winter Palace commonly known as Bloody Sunday took place. 100’s were killed due to horrific misunderstanding by the Russian army. In many ways this helped fuel Russian Revolt.
Annie Bessant published her findings in an article called White Slavery in London. In this article she noted how poorly people who worked at Bryant and may factory where treated and the wicked conditions they worked in. The factory responded by attempting to force their workers to sign a declaration that they were happy with their working conditions. When a group of women refused to sign, they sacked the interviewees. The response was immediate; with Annie’s help, they formed a union, and 1400 of the women at Bryant & May went on strike.
Workers worked in poorly ventilated factories for long hours and little pay. They had no trade unions for protection. Their homes were crowded and poorly built. Economic recession between 1899 and 1903 had
Women were expected to be dutiful helpmates to their husbands. Their primary tasks were concerned with child-bearing and standard housewife chores. Most women married in their early twenties and give birth to an average of 6 to 7 children within a range of 20 years. As the size of farms shrank in long-settled communities, families chose to have fewer children. After 1750 women in a typical village bore an average of 4 children in one lifetime.
Then, they established many salle d'asile to care for children of working poor and rich families. In 1857, the first English crèche, the Public Nursery was established by a group of wealthy women in Toronto to provide care for infants. After that, crèches or nurseries programs increased rapidly across English-Speaking Canada to provide care for young children of working mothers, poor mothers or those who were unable to care for their children. In 1887, The English-Speaking Day Nursery program in Montreal was opened. Then in the next 20 years, many crèches opened in Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax.
118 freeway and exits were now shut down along with Paxton and San Fernando Road. Squad 1 completed all shut offs and were now assigned to use machinery to relocate valuables from the building to salvage whatever was able to be salvaged. All evacuated persons were relocated to the adjacent
Keep the locks on and keep going. If anyone whistles, don’t turn to look. Don’t go into a Laundromat by yourself, at night... Women were not protected then. (Atwood, 30) A totalitarian government now rules over the people of Gilead, and religious beliefs are more important then science and human rights. The utilitarian view of making as many people as happy as possible, is the most important goal.
Many of the women involved in these act would be sentenced to prison time where they would starve themselves in protest which led to force-feeding which caused infection and illness. Emmeline Pankhurst played a major role in the movement alongside her daughters Christabel, Sylvia and Adela. She herself founded the Women's Social and Political Union and campaigned for equal voting rights for women. Her beliefs were reinforced by the fact that she was a Poor Law guardian from 1895 and in the process saw the misery and suffering of women in the workhouses and she was shocked by the treatment of women. Pankhurst gave a speech in October 1908 at a trial where she was defending herself against a charge of ‘conduct likely to provoke a breach of the peace’.