HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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monotonous with long working hours, low pay and no job security.
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enjoyable and safe because the machines did the work.
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a relative job security with come opportunities for advancement.
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high paying jobs for workers.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did conditions change for industrial workers in the late nineteenth century, and why? Deskilling and mass production caused the focus from skill to shift to production value. Many industrial workers were replaced by machines with little human oversight.
Detailed explanation-2: -Accidents, fires, injuries, and disease are very frequent occurrences on production sites. Many production houses have not been able to find a solution, leading to innocent lives being lost. Verbal abuse is a common issue faced by factory workers. They are constantly berated, insulted and denied breaks.
Detailed explanation-3: -Unskilled labor was performed by those willing to take the lowest wages: women, children, and the “new immigrants” from southern and eastern Europe and Asia. “New immigrants” were those who had come from Italy, Greece, Poland, Austria-Hungary, the Balkans, and Russia in the 1890s.
Detailed explanation-4: -Cotton mills, coal mines, iron-works, and brick factories all had bad air, which caused chest diseases, coughs, blood-spitting, hard breathing, pains in chest, and insomnia. Workers usually toiled extremely long hours, six days a week.
Detailed explanation-5: -Industrial Revolution affected the condition of workers in many ways: The workers had to work very hard. They had to work for 15-18 hours in a day. They were living in slum areas.