Beginning in the mid 1700’s the Industrial Revolution brought about major changes technologically, and economically in England. When the 1800’s came the Industrial Revolution was in full swing bringing great prosperity both monetarily, and technologically, but at a great price. The great price came at the expense of the factory workers. The treatment both dehumanized the workers and led to a major decline in health, and family dynamic. Despite this terrible treatment of the workers some capitalists believed that the ends justified the means. However plentiful and glorious the economic and technological advances of the Industrial Revolution were they did not justify the inhumane and grotesque treatment of workers.
The ill treatment of workers …show more content…
It forced workers to work in filthy, dangerous conditions. Often people would lose limbs and fingers due to various machines such as the Spinning Jenny, and electricity also led to inhuman like working hours going up to almost 20 hours. It is natural that a medical observer would think this way as he is required by Hippocratic oaths to speak for the patients, and his medical background would lead to a good professional opinion. In an essay published by Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working class he discusses how the upper class exploits the working class. (doc 5) In his book Communist Manifesto he states that every conflict in humanity occurs due to social class wars, a battle between haves, and have-nots. The upper class did not sympathize at all with the lower class as they believed those people had not worked hard enough in life, and they deserved to be treated like swine. Naturally Engels would be obliged to think like this because of his communist viewpoint, which was due to his own personal experiences with the atrocities occurring in factories. In evidence provided before the Sadler Committee
The ill treatment of workers …show more content…
It forced workers to work in filthy, dangerous conditions. Often people would lose limbs and fingers due to various machines such as the Spinning Jenny, and electricity also led to inhuman like working hours going up to almost 20 hours. It is natural that a medical observer would think this way as he is required by Hippocratic oaths to speak for the patients, and his medical background would lead to a good professional opinion. In an essay published by Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working class he discusses how the upper class exploits the working class. (doc 5) In his book Communist Manifesto he states that every conflict in humanity occurs due to social class wars, a battle between haves, and have-nots. The upper class did not sympathize at all with the lower class as they believed those people had not worked hard enough in life, and they deserved to be treated like swine. Naturally Engels would be obliged to think like this because of his communist viewpoint, which was due to his own personal experiences with the atrocities occurring in factories. In evidence provided before the Sadler Committee