Good Working Conditions: Southern Slavery And Northern Labor

Both southern slavery and northern laborers are not in good working conditions. They both have their own struggles throughout the workdays. Taking on long work shifts, with little to no breaks, not so good living conditions. I believe that nothern laborers were in nearly as bad as a conditions as southern slaves. The workers in the Northern Factories worked a fourteen to sixteen hour day for six days a week only getting paid 10 cents an hour because many were considered unskilled. Employers were able to set the workers pay as low as they wanted because their were tons of people willing to do any work as long as they got paid. Working conditions were not safe, there were a large amount of machines with not a lot of safety precautions. Many workers lost their arms and legs to the machines.Most factory owners didn’t care what happened to the workers because they could be easily replace with someone else who's looking for a job. In some factories the machines spit out smoke, by the end of the day many workers left work covered in black soot. Workers only got a break during lunch and dinner. …show more content…
Since everyone lived in such bad conditions and close to one another, many people got sick. Disease spread rapidly and the with not a lot of medical supplies and medical care many people died. Slaves worked from sunrise to sunset. Many slaves worked everyday while others were allowed one day a month off or were allowed to have Sundays as their rest day, it all depended on wo their owner was. Slaves usually are given clothes once a year, but the types of clothing you received was based on age, sex, and the type of labor the wearer was