Industrial Revolution DBQ During the Industrial Revolution, many higher class citizens of Britain believed that factory workers had a fair pay and decent working conditions, but factory labourers actually lived in deplorable conditions with high fatality rate because of such things as dangerous machinery and cramped housing. According to the middle and upper classes, labourers lived and worked in tolerable conditions. According to Document 2, factory villages were in good condition and its inhabitants looked healthy and happy. While the document shows how the workers were treated well, the point of view comes from an author writing about the conditions of the poor and is likely part of the upper middle class who doesn’t actually go work any …show more content…
According to Document 4, the slums in towns and cities are filthy due to the lack of a drainage system and have unstable buildings. The river going through the slums are also pitch black due to a factory’s waste. This shows how the neighborhood that many factory workers lived in had deplorable living conditions where there was overpopulation and possibly many disease outbreaks to to the filth being piled in the slums. Because the point of view comes from a German socialist, it shows that the person has traveled and probably seen enough slums in cities to say that most are filthy and cramped. Document 5 shows a testimony given by a factory worker about how numerous people died at two separate mills because of dangerous working conditions including hazardous materials in the air to dangerous machinery. The worker who testified was also said to die within the year of the testimony due to poor lung health because of the dust in the mills and malnutrition. This document shows how many workers from different factories all have dangerous working conditions and that it is due to the lack of safety precautions and caring about the well-being of the workers, and because the point of view is coming from a worker it also shows what the factories from someone who is basically living in them instead of simply being an observer like the many other documents. The
The author uses many different implicit examples of how there was a lack of safety in the factory. First of all, the title “ Flesh And Blood So Cheap” explains that many people may have died. Which shows that the people could not have died if there was safety where they work at. In paragraph 5 it states, “They caused a pileup so
In chapter 1 starts by mentioning about a documentary called “Harvest of Shame” this did not only open the audience eye on how food is produced and grown in the United States, but also the condition of the worker work in and how hunger is such a big deal. The document had a sequel called “Migrant.” “Migrant” talked about the abuse labor in Florida in the citrus groves. This bad press made those companies want to fix their problem and fix their working conditions. Well that’s what they said but it really took two years to make these changes because they were being threaten to being boycotted for there labor situation.
The conditions were expressed very negative and unjust for they’d work for absolutely any wage. Men, women, boys, and girls, were put to work in harsh conditions that are treated as slaves doc 1. Living conditions are very alike to those depicted in doc 4 where immigrants were staying. They are very humble and they dress very cheaply and eat rice from China while sleeping 20 in a room treated very poorly. They used them to find success in business’s for they’d work continuously and would pay them whatever they wished.
They risked their freedom and life to join in the protest this shows how courageous they acted. It also shows the authors point of view, which is rebelling for a better life and
Readers can infer that poor people were deprived of food and possibilities because of the strong use of pathos and imagery. Also, the substandard jobs were reserved for the poor because they were ineligible of equal opportunities because they were deemed uneducated. Americans still view poor people as being uneducated and wrongfully inferring that as the cause of their poverty. This incorrect thinking leads poor people to have less rights than others because they have to
All day long the gates of the packing houses were besieged by starving and penniless men; they came, literally, by the thousands every single morning, fighting for each other for a chance for life” (Chapter 7, Page 77). This industrial crisis was unveiled by the lack of empathy from higher authorities, who would continue to hire workers on a daily basis despite the current workers dropping like flies, due to the extreme, unsafe, and unsanitary conditions that they experienced. This dehumanized their own self-identity and self-worth, in which the industry made it quite clear that they were just bolts and screws to the machines, and could easily be replaced, due to the influx of immigrants at this time. The dehumanization of the individual worker, and the unimaginable conditions that one needed to work in, led to many socialistic ideologies and aggressive strikes that were prevalent in this novel, another crucial aspect that was portrayed alongside the emphasis on the industrial
Although many historians believe that there was a negative impact of industrialization and technological changes on American society; however, the positive impact of the two factors overpowers the negative impact on American society economically and socially between the time period of 1900 to 1930. Economically, there were positive impacts on American society due to the industrialization and technological changes that the nation was undergoing. In Theodore Roosevelt’s “The New Nationalism” 1910, he points out that no man in American society can be a good citizen because of the wage he makes that isn't ample enough to cover the bare cost of living, and the hours of labor are too long which doesn't give him energy and time to bear his share
In short, Davis wrote Iron Mills to bring awareness about working conditions, especially in the up and running industrial mills. While reading Iron Mills, I saw her goals being accomplished; I witnessed the realities of the mills’ environment, not only that, I also saw and felt how the workers lived, not being content with their
Italians worked in gruesome “sweat shops” that were detrimental towards the workers. The immigrants were supplied with horrendous materials that would lead to people loosing their arms and legs. Tuberculosis was passed around the factory and killed an abundance of workers. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire is a prime example of how the workshop setting is very discriminatory towards Italian immigrants. When World War I broke out, Italians faced the harsh suspicions of being spies for Italy in the war.
In chapter 6 it explains how many women from back in the days and women from today still work in the sweatshops and work in poor conditions. Many women who work in the sweatshop work many hours and have lack of benefits. About 100 million Chinese workers are floating people which means that they are peasants who left the countryside to work in sweatshops. I consider this to be a main point in the story because in China you have people working long hours, seven days a week, without seeing their family to be paid less, is a serious problem. All those people working in sweatshops will never find a way in life to further out their success.
Then, people went wild. They killed their co-workers who still worked at the pit calling them as traitors and cowards. According to the Geminal, “They were brutes, no doubt, but brutes who could not read, and who were dying of hunger.” They also killed the Maigrat who owns the only shop in this town and afflicted the miners with money and foods. Also, when the company decided to hire some Belgium workers, the situation got even worse.
The odds The time period of 1865 to 1900 was an era called the Gilded Age. The citizens of America saw a change in the way the country operated. The country started to become more industrialized based, while the agriculture industry decreased. Due to these changes in the economy, industrial workers and farmers struggled.
Shipler’s writing made me look back on my life and feel compassion for those that interviewed. To read some of the struggles that working poor face daily was overwhelming like working odd hours at low rates like Caroline and how she decided to have her teeth removed to get dentures paid by the state only to find out how ill-fitting they were and she couldn’t wear them or life as migrant worker in the fields of North Carolina; which one of my co-workers is from a small town next to Mt. Olive. When I was talking to her about the chapter regarding her hometown area and the housing conditions where the migrant workers lived. What she described was similar to what Shipler stated if not a little worse. She made a point that made me think about it
The author seems to write about the wonderful life of the workers since they chat cheerfully, and build up a tiny support group; however, words like “raucous,” “overwhelmed,” and “conceal” reveal
In the 1940s we have been dealing with migrant workers toiled in the field and faced many hardships. It was difficult and miserable for them working