revolution was very key in our countries history and was a major turning point to allow the United States become what it is today. The Industrial Revolution led to the increase of living standards because of the rise in salary that they earned from their new factory jobs operating new and advanced machinery. First of all‚ historians agree that salaries increased extravagantly during the Industrial Revolution. Some historians‚ such as Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson‚ calculate that wages rose by roughly seventy percent
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their profits by cramming as many poorly-built houses into as small a space as possible. Such as cramped‚ squalid living conditions proved the perfect breeding ground for disease. The new factories were like magnets. Made small tows overcrowded cities due to the knock on effect. The development of factories led to poor conditions. Poorly built houses Cramped living conditions Extremely poor hygiene Run-down‚ dilapidated housing Housing: Housing was small and cramped with numerous houses
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February-March 2012‚ after receiving an increasing amount of criticism in relation to their current business practices. Accused of “turning a blind eye to dismal working conditions at partner factories” (Paronen‚ 1)‚ Apple agreed to allow the Fair Labor Association (FLA) to conduct an audit of their suppliers’ factories which lead to the discovery of numerous labor‚ environmental‚ health and safety violations. The audit which was publically released in March 2012‚ led to increased pressure and negative
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Every morning‚ I wake up extremely early to get to the factory for work. Since I’m a young woman‚ I work in the textile part of the factory alongside other women‚ young and old. Pretty much everyone in this town works in the factory‚ and if they don’t‚ and if they’re a man‚ they probably work in the coal mine. Although we all work long hours for a very low pay‚ and the majority of the children don’t get a real education‚ all of our work is contributing to the improvement of machines and architecture
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employed after the industrial revolution‚ for all the cotton was broke up by a machine‚ turned by the steam machine . So that the spinners had no employment except they went to work in the factory all day. As I explained before‚ people moved from countryside to industrial towns and cities to be closer to the factories offering jobs. The conditions during the early
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and following the agricultural revolution and the domestic system (Moss‚ 1968)‚ most families sought work in the city‚ in mines and textile factories‚ which is seen in Source 1 (in the Appendices). Children before the Industrial Revolution lived in feudal manors in the country. The living and working conditions were much more liberated than in the factory system. Though it still was harsh and labour intensive‚ this was the case throughout all parts of the Industrial Revolution. The food relied
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In his New York Times essay‚ “where Sweatshops are a Dream‚” writer Nicholas Kristof described the horrible living conditions of the people in Phnom Penh. Nicholas writes that the Phnom people believe that having a factory job is a way out of poverty and not as dangerous as scavenging on the street. He goes on to add that Democrats and the Americans are supporting Mr. Obama in the war against dangerous and cruel conditions in sweatshops. Nicholas implies that he knows that sweatshops will help the
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is believed that the “The modern bourgeois society... has not done away with class antagonisms... new conditions of oppression… but created new forms of struggle in place of the old ones” (Marx and Friederich 14). The rise of the middle class‚ new factory owners‚ lead to the control and exploiting of the working class. This new class has emerged and made immense profits through unfair treatment of workers because of demands for cheap labor. This division further enhances a social gap between the wealthy
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Behind the Swoosh is a documentary worth seeing on one of Nike’s factories located in Indonesia. Unlike what we think about factories here today in the United States‚ you soon learn the ugly truth that in fact Nike’s factory is really a sweatshop. Workers are paid next to nothing and can barely survive. Educating for Justice Directors‚ Leslie Kretzu and Jim Keady are two Americans that go to Indonesia to live as one of Nike’s sweatshop workers and record their time spent living in the slums. The
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Justin Grzechowiak Essay #1 During the second industrial revolution the U.S. was expanding and advancing rapidly. This ultimately led to a lot of corruption and most importantly a very unequal distribution of wealth amongst the people. The factory owners of this time period were living lavishly while their hard working employees were struggling to put food on the table. The gap between the rich and the poor was growing just as fast as the country itself. Something needed to be done about it
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