Common People In The 19th Century

Thesis: In the first part, I will describe how common people of Europe lived and worked in the first half of the nineteenth century. At that time, there are a lot of difficult situations for common people in European society. They usually didn't have many rights and life was very difficult. They did hard work but made little money, so they were very poor. And in the early 19th century, increasing industrialization particular break the traditional European family economy, many people left their home, went to city and became a worker.

Today, to other people around the world, everyday life of Americans may seem luxurious. Americans wake up, go to their jobs, go home to their families, and then go to bed. But American people still tend to complain about how hard life is, however, I think that some Americans have reasons to …show more content…
Their stories of daily activities, work life, and even activities of politics are filled with lively, but they are often have a poignant moments. The life of French workers is very hard. They lived in unsanitary housing, got diseases, had workplace accidents and terrible hardship, especially they were so poor and without ability to change their situation.
Traugott's analytic introduction discusses the many shifts in French society during the early 19th century. In combination with other sources, The French workers came to city from countryside, they are lack of political rights, social status, and economic capability. Increasing industrialization particular broke the traditional the French social structure, and created some new production models, thus the skilled artisans were finished who were previously employed in those trades. This change occurred first and most dramatically in the textile industry, particularly spinning cotton and weaving certain types of