Industrial Revolution Working Conditions In The Nineteenth Century

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Industrial Revolutions Working Conditions In the nineteenth century, there was a substantial increase in the industrial business. The working conditions in these factories were often unsanitary and would cause the people working in them to get very sick. The people working in these factories would also not receive the proper pay for the amount of hours they were working. Many of the workers in these factories lost their jobs or had a large pay cut due to the economic recession. There was a lot of corruption in the factories, if someone got hurt on the job they wouldn't get payments or health benefits, they often did not let workers take breaks when working. As years passed, the working conditions are much safer and fairer than back in the nineteenth century. The employers in these factories would hire children and women in order to save money. The employers and owners in these factories did not give much attention to the workers. They did not provide them with proper working conditions and did not care if they got hurt or died. By 1900, industrial accidents killed thirty-five thousand …show more content…

Upton Sinclair, a socialist journalist, spent about seven weeks investigating these meatpacking plants. In these meatpacking plants, the conditions were very unsanitary. For example, the sausage was rejected and shipped, what got shipped would be old moldy meat. The meatpacking plant would then dip the moldy meat in borax and glycerin to make the meat look new and fresh. There would also be an abundance of rats in the room where they stored the meat. There was no place for the men to wash their hands before they ate their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage (encyclopedia.com Conditions in Meatpacking Plants 1906, By Upton Sinclair). When cutting the meats, there would be no protection and people would end up cutting off their fingers and

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