Even though it appeared that the Industrial Revolution was a creative force because of the improvements it made to families lives, close up, it becomes evident that the Industrial Revolution actually created a base for poor treatment of lower class citizens.
Despite the lack of care for the lower class workers, people who lived during the Industrial Revolution generally had more opportunities to succeed in their lives compared to people who lived before them. Because there was a growing need for unskilled workers, it was quite easy for the average citizen to obtain a job. The positions needed to be filled ranged from a factory laborer, working long, difficult days, to a shopkeeper who sold tea for a living. The abundance of different types …show more content…
According to Friedrich Engels, a social scientist who lived during the time, the poor working class usually “struggle through life as best they can out of sight of the more fortunate classes of society” and lived where “the streets are usually unpaved, full of holes, filthy and strewn with refuse”. The lack of care for the places where the workers live reveals that the government treats the workers more similarly to assets than actual people. People who were already suffering from a lack of wealth were unable to sustain a healthy lifestyle because of the filthy living conditions. In addition to the inhumane living conditions the workers were treated to, the government didn’t care for the lower class people. Shown by a cartoon published in 1866, the royalty of initially seem to be gracious by giving out free water when in retrospect, they knowingly supplied water contaminated with the cholera disease to the poor of the town. This carelessness reveals that the upper class citizens thought of the lower classes as replaceable because they didn’t mind if the poor citizens were infected and died from disease while they lived lives filled with wealth and …show more content…
Displayed in a cartoon from 1845, the workers in the factories were drawn as skeletons, representing the terrible lifestyles they lived because of lack of sufficient pay. The factory owners believed that the workers did not need much pay, creating conditions which often lead to death. Because the owners and other more official people were benefitting from the cheap labor, they turned a blind eye to the fact that people weren’t earning much money at all while they were earning lots. On top of that, for a large portion of the Industrial Revolution, workers lacked rights outlining work hour, conditions, and the right to earn more money. Without these rights, the upper class and factory owners could easily control the lower class. They left the entire lower class helpless because the factory owners held sole control of the worker’s incomes. Instead of giving the workers what they desired, the owners could easily fire the workers and replace them because the work didn’t require much skill. Furthermore, in 1824, a journalist published a report stating, “men had dropped down in the harvest fields” because of the heat while the reporters “were retreating to the coolest rooms in our houses”. Although the report may have been exaggerated for the
Despite the lack of care for the lower class workers, people who lived during the Industrial Revolution generally had more opportunities to succeed in their lives compared to people who lived before them. Because there was a growing need for unskilled workers, it was quite easy for the average citizen to obtain a job. The positions needed to be filled ranged from a factory laborer, working long, difficult days, to a shopkeeper who sold tea for a living. The abundance of different types …show more content…
According to Friedrich Engels, a social scientist who lived during the time, the poor working class usually “struggle through life as best they can out of sight of the more fortunate classes of society” and lived where “the streets are usually unpaved, full of holes, filthy and strewn with refuse”. The lack of care for the places where the workers live reveals that the government treats the workers more similarly to assets than actual people. People who were already suffering from a lack of wealth were unable to sustain a healthy lifestyle because of the filthy living conditions. In addition to the inhumane living conditions the workers were treated to, the government didn’t care for the lower class people. Shown by a cartoon published in 1866, the royalty of initially seem to be gracious by giving out free water when in retrospect, they knowingly supplied water contaminated with the cholera disease to the poor of the town. This carelessness reveals that the upper class citizens thought of the lower classes as replaceable because they didn’t mind if the poor citizens were infected and died from disease while they lived lives filled with wealth and …show more content…
Displayed in a cartoon from 1845, the workers in the factories were drawn as skeletons, representing the terrible lifestyles they lived because of lack of sufficient pay. The factory owners believed that the workers did not need much pay, creating conditions which often lead to death. Because the owners and other more official people were benefitting from the cheap labor, they turned a blind eye to the fact that people weren’t earning much money at all while they were earning lots. On top of that, for a large portion of the Industrial Revolution, workers lacked rights outlining work hour, conditions, and the right to earn more money. Without these rights, the upper class and factory owners could easily control the lower class. They left the entire lower class helpless because the factory owners held sole control of the worker’s incomes. Instead of giving the workers what they desired, the owners could easily fire the workers and replace them because the work didn’t require much skill. Furthermore, in 1824, a journalist published a report stating, “men had dropped down in the harvest fields” because of the heat while the reporters “were retreating to the coolest rooms in our houses”. Although the report may have been exaggerated for the