Topic 5: The Labor Movement

1 (Problems Faced by Industrial Workers)

-Impersonal conditions/ boring, repetitive task

2 (Problems Faced by Industrial workers)

-Long Workdays: 12 hours a days, six days a week (exhaustion and disrupted family line)

3 (Problems Faced by Industrial workers)

-Lack of opportunity for advancement

4  (Problems Faced by Industrial workers)

• Low wages/ periodic unemployment: workers in many industries such as manufacturing mining, and agriculture, were paid extremely low wages that often did not cover basic living experiences

5 (Problems Faced by Industrial workers)

--Dangerous conditions/ No workers’ compensation: factories lacked ventilation, exposed to hazardous materials without protection. Accident were frequent, and workplace safety regulations were virtually nonexistent

1 (Unpleasant Living Conditions)

-Workers often lived in crowded and unsanitary urban tenements. Poor housing conditions, along with low wages, contributed to the cycle of proverty for many laborers.

2 (Unpleasant Living Conditions)

-Cramped, poorly lit, under ventilated, and usually without indoor plumbing, the tenements were hotbeds of vermin and disease, and were frequently swept by cholera, typhus, and tubercubsis.

Child Labor

-Children young as five or six were employed in factories, mines, and mills. They worked in dangerous and were paid significantly less than adults.