Extremely bad.
In the book " The Jungle " by Upton Sinclair, the author detailed the appaling conditions faced by the workers of the meat-packaging industry, but the author was careful to present it as a novel that was about a Lithuanian who ended up working in a Chicago meat-packaging factories.
The public understood that it wasnt intended to be a novel, and the outcry was bad enough to instigate Roosevelt to send in Charles P.Neills and James Bronson Reynolds to check the situation for themselves in Chicago. They found that most of the disgusting conditions mentioned in Sinclair's novel actually existed in those plants.
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"There were the men in the pickle rooms, for instance, where old Antanas
had gotten his death; scarce a one of these that had not some spot of
horror on his person. Let a man so much as scrape his finger pushing a
truck in the pickle rooms, and he might have a sore that would put him
out of the world; all the joints in his fingers might be eaten by the
acid, one by one.
Of the butchers and floorsmen, the beef-boners and
trimmers, and all those who used knives, you could scarcely find a
person who had the use of his thumb; time and time again the base of it
had been slashed, till it was a mere lump of flesh against which the
man pressed the knife to hold it. The hands of these men would be
criss-crossed with cuts, until you could no longer pretend to count
them or to trace them. They would have no nails,--they had worn them off
pulling hides; their knuckles were swollen so that their fingers spread
out like a fan.
There were men who worked in the cooking rooms, in the
midst of steam and sickening odors, by artificial light; in these rooms
the germs of tuberculosis might live for two years, but the supply
was renewed every hour. There were the beef-luggers, who carried
two-hundred-pound quarters into the refrigerator-cars; a fearful kind of
work, that began at four o'clock in the morning, and that wore out the
most powerful men in a few years. There were those who worked in the
chilling rooms, and whose special disease was rheumatism; the time limit
that a man could work in the chilling rooms was said to be five years.
There were the wool-pluckers, whose hands went to pieces even sooner
than the hands of the pickle men; for the pelts of the sheep had to be
painted with acid to loosen the wool, and then the pluckers had to
pull out this wool with their bare hands, till the acid had eaten their
fingers off. There were those who made the tins for the canned meat; and
their hands, too, were a maze of cuts, and each cut represented a chance
for blood poisoning. Some worked at the stamping machines, and it was
very seldom that one could work long there at the pace that was set, and
not give out and forget himself and have a part of his hand chopped off.
There were the "hoisters," as they were called, whose task it was to
press the lever which lifted the dead cattle off the floor. They ran
along upon a rafter, peering down through the damp and the steam; and
as old Durham's architects had not built the killing room for the
convenience of the hoisters, at every few feet they would have to stoop
under a beam, say four feet above the one they ran on; which got them
into the habit of stooping, so that in a few years they would be walking
like chimpanzees.
Worst of any, however, were the fertilizer men, and
those who served in the cooking rooms. These people could not be shown
to the visitor,--for the odor of a fertilizer man would scare any
ordinary visitor at a hundred yards, and as for the other men, who
worked in tank rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open
vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they
fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never
enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,--sometimes they would be
overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the
world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard! "
if you want a more direct description, read "Down and Out in Paris and London" by George Orwell ( the author of "animal Farm " ). He spent some time wandering around, undertaking the lowest forms of work in Paris and London, and wrote down what he saw.
he says , concerning the restaurants of europe, that the more you pay for your food, the more dirt you'll get in it ( and he goes into details that he actually saw ).
the upper and upper middle class lived in the best most expensive houses and enjoyed the best of what the new consumer society had to offer
they were horrible and they were also very crowded
Very poor, poverty was evident and children had to work in factories that caused pollution and various health problems.
The Upper Class lived in luxury, and received a lot of money. They started to enjoy literature and the arts in their new found time also. They had servants too.
How did the Industrial Revolution cut into the political power of the upper classes?A.Middle-class professionals demanded a voice in government.
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How did the Industrial Revolution cut into the political power of the upper classes?A.Middle-class professionals demanded a voice in government.
Both groups were treated unfairly and unequally compared with men of their class.
Answer this question… Upper-class women rarely had jobs outside the home, while lower-class women frequently held factory jobs.
Basically the French Revolution and the Agricultural Revolution (which developed into the Industrial Revolution). The French Revolution showed the people of Europe that it is possible to overthrow a tyrannical monarchial government and establish a democracy. With the development of the Industrial Revolution, capitalism allowed, in theory, anyone to rise to the elite upper class.
Very few opportunities were available. Oppurnunities spread from the upper class to middle class.
How did the Industrial Revolution cut into the political power of the upper classes?A.Middle-class professionals demanded a voice in government.
The working class, including factory workers and laborers, suffered the most from industrialization. They faced long hours, dangerous working conditions, low wages, and little job security. Many families lived in crowded and unsanitary conditions in urban areas, contributing to poor health and quality of life.
Both groups were treated unfairly and unequally compared with men of their class.
Answer this question… Upper-class women rarely had jobs outside the home, while lower-class women frequently held factory jobs.
Answer this question… Upper-class women rarely had jobs outside the home, while lower-class women frequently held factory jobs.
Middle-class professionals demanded a voice in government.
Middle-class professionals demanded a voice in government.
Basically the French Revolution and the Agricultural Revolution (which developed into the Industrial Revolution). The French Revolution showed the people of Europe that it is possible to overthrow a tyrannical monarchial government and establish a democracy. With the development of the Industrial Revolution, capitalism allowed, in theory, anyone to rise to the elite upper class.
Very few opportunities were available. Oppurnunities spread from the upper class to middle class.
During the industrial revolution, factory workers, owners and merchants created a class system. Believing that the class system was unfair, Karl Marx wrote his manifesto detailing the uprising of the proletariate (or lower, working class, mostly from industrial factories) therefore destroying the bourgeoise (upper middle class) and the class system altogether. Also, the main purpose of all members of a communist society is to work industrially for the good of all of the community- this explains why communism is meant to work best in an industrial society.
Inequality rose during the industrial revolution due to the creation of a working and management class and the subsequent incomesgot from chacha!
Generally, the working class and the peasants were not killed, though sympethisers of the bourgeausie were. The upper class and the nobles were usuually guillotined.