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Factory Workers In The Late 1800s And Early 1900s

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The factories poor workers like Joe worked long hours in were extremely dangerous. Many workers at the time where mutilated or even killed in these factories. Those who didn't die from the injuries were more likely to get laid off then get compensation. The factory owners didn't care there were tons of people who were willing to take the job to try to support their family. That's way the business owners of the late 1800s and early 1900s were robber barons and because they also got rich by using poor cheap labors, they used shady business tactics to cheat investors out of money, and they thought they were superior to their fellow man. The businessmen of the late 1800s and early 1900s treated their workers horrible and made all their money on the backs of hard working men and women. The workers who made these men rich were dirt poor. These men and women had families but even working as many hours a week could barely support their families. Many people got hurt in the factories and were given little or no compensation or help leaving them and their family no way to make money. The owners only cared about there produces getting made they didn't care about the men, women, and sometimes even children that were putting there …show more content…

The rich business owners also had some shady business practices they would use to get ahead of their competition. Watering down stocks is one tactic that these businessmen used to get ahead. Watering down stocks is when a company gives a unreal value for their stocks meaning the stock owner doesn't really have that much money in the company. This means these people are getting cheated out of money and the owners are getting way more money from stocks and investors for their company then they should be lying about how much its worth. The cartoon in document D shows this when to business owners are taking about cheaping to get

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The text, Scraping By, by Seth Rockman is unique in the fact that the prosperous city of Baltimore in the 1800’s and the wealthy elites that reside in it are more or less exposed. Rockman examines the city from the rock bottom. Historians and textbooks often exclude the main ideas and arguments of this book. Baltimore falsely claimed all who worked hard had the chance to be successful. The actual reality was that the impoverished working-class had a minute opportunity to change hard labor from a career into only a stage in their life; impossible might be a better word to describe their opportunities to thrive and prosper.

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This was caused by the lack of regulations and laws which allowed businessmen to get away with paying their employees unethically low wages without benefits. This lack of regulations and laws also enabled business to cut corners, which lead to unsafe product, such as spoiled meat as seen in document 2, and child labor, which is seen in document 3, in order to save money. During the gilded era, corrupt politicians added to the problems and injustices. Document 4 shows this using a comic.

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Factory Working Working in the 1800’s was hard and was very dangerous, by the mid 1800’s America was using machines to produce most things such as clothing, shoes, watches, , guns, and farming machines. The workers would work an average of 11.4 hours a day. The workers were very tired. The factories were very rugged and dangerous, there were fast rapidly moving parts exposed and that cuased many accidents with adults and children.

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Imagine the agonizing task of cutting innumerable acres of tall, strong grass with only a single, giant knife. Envision the back-breaking pain of bending over in the scorching sun for hours and hours to accomplish what is now a simple task. In the past, farm work was extensively different and much more intense than it is today. In the early 1800s, a farmer had to use a scythe to cut the fields. It was terribly tiresome work and took very lengthy amounts of time.

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Human labor is an essential source of economic growth and the more labor contributes, the more of an economic production. During the Industrial Revolution which took place in the 18th and 19th Century which was known as the transition of new manufacturing processes, proves how factories took the full advantage of human labor and unfortunately, set aside workers rights. With this in mind, this labor force was made up of children under the age of 12 , millions of newly arrived immigrants, and a huge number of families migrating from different rural areas[some where unskilled workers] to an urban society, to see what life there can offer, and in hopes of having a job security, prosperity, and most of all, the idea of the American Dream. For this reason, as factories were being built, businesses were in need of workers, which is why people were willing to work as long as they got paid to support their families and keep in mind that factories were not always the best place to work. With this in mind, with the dream of a better life, many unskilled immigrants who migrated from different rural areas relocated to different areas to find work.

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