The "Gilded Age" is a sarcastic term used to describe the time period when many industrialists gained wealth and luxurious lifestyles through corruption. Although people can be described as living a golden existence, under all the gold paint many sins in this era where still beneath it. Small farmers and others with low paying jobs felt as if society was being dived between what people do have, and what people do not have. Many of the lowerclassmen did not have the advantage that many of the wealthier people had. Industrial wages were low as well as having long hours in factories with a unstable working environment." industrial workers struggled to survive the bleak conditions often hidden behind the nation's glittering façade." N/P The Gilded
