Working Conditions In The 1800s

The industrial revolution without a doubt made people's life easier. With all the new technology and products, what could be bad? For starters, the environment became very dirty because of all the machines, Machines were harmful to the workers, The working conditions were unsanitary and bad, therefore The period of rapid industrial growth during the 1800s and into the early 1900s more harmful because working in a factory was dangerous to the workers, working in a factory was unsanitary, and it made the environment very dirty. Its without a doubt working in a factory was very dangerous to the workers. Machines definitely weren't perfect in the 1800’s. Even though they made work easier they were known to cut off worker’s fingers, and indangour

The crowded workspace made disease spread faster than normal. A big issue with this is, even if the workers were sick they would still have to go to work. Which eventually means the workers would just spread disease faster. Another piece of evidence is the business owners were so anxious to get there machines up and running, it lead to safety concerns.For example, Safety was not a major concern, and dangerous parts of machines were not covered or screened off properly. Machines did not yet have the features to make them shut off in case of an accident. This is a safety concern because many body parts have been cut off because machines were not screened off from the workers. Some worker even had lifelong disabilities from the poor machines not being able to shut off in case of emergency. To sum it up it's clear to see working in a factory was very dangerous in the

In 1910 550 million tons of coal was being mined each year…”Burning coal in such large quantities without much regard to filtering the smoke emitted into the air resulted in significant air pollution.” The Business owners were making the workers burn so much coal that the workers got all types of lung diseases just by breathing in all the fumes. The pollution from the smoke was also so bad that you could see the smog floating over industrial towns. Another example of pollutions is, “pollution of waterways that border cities. Sewage in these cities washed into the streets and eventually into waterways, which hastened the spread of disease.” The sewage would eventually spread into the streets and when people touched it the germs and the trash from other people would spread onto their skin causing disease. One more example is, “As more product was being produced as a result of the Industrial Revolution, the natural resources necessary to make the production possible were under great demand. As a result of the growth of production as well as population, the demand had surpassed the availability showing the implications of limited available resources.” It's obvious to see that limiting natural resources could lead to a number of problems to begin with. These problems don't even have to do with business, but with people, because if the factories don't have enough material to make the product they don't have anything to sell.