What jobs were available for men in the 1890s?

Answer 1

The middle class didn't exist like it does today. There was a much greater income disparity at the end of the Gilded Age because most people were in the poor working class while a very few were in the exceptionally wealthy bourgeoise (capitalist) class. Most people fell towards one end or the other, though there was a tiny professional class of lawyers, medical "professionals", and small businessmen who were neither working class nor overly wealthy. I suppose the closest equivalent to "middle class" would be yeoman (independent) farmers because they were respected as landowners and constituted a near majority of Americans in 1900. Their working conditions and incomes were mostly on a working class level, but being landowners placed them above most urban workers.

Answer 2

Some of the most common jobs were mining and factory work.

Answer 3

They were bad, they barely earned enough money to survive and they had to work in hot, cramped workshops called sweatshops, people here earned 10 dollars per week. The women earned even less.

Answer 4

It depends on the country you are referring to but in the 1900s the most common occupations were within agriculture

Answer 5

Farm