Savannah Wilkerson 11/6/14 US History

agesandWorkingConditions.html What working conditions Important to the people in 1880s?

Their government have make more laws says that employers have to look after the workforce and provide safety equipment and other things for them. The year start of the Industrial Revolution none of these laws existed and so working in a factory could prove to be very dangerous indeed. most fundamental working condition is the chance of death on the job. annual earnings only parts reflect hourly wages. They reflect difference in how many hours a year workers spend on the job.

There is a quite same for workers to work 12 hour s or more a day, in the hot and physically exhausting work places. Exhaustion natural leads to the worker becoming sluggish (slow), which again makes the workplace more dangerous. In the year 1832, one observer saw how the skilled hand weavers had lost their way and were reduce to starvation. “It is truly lamentable to behold so many thousands of men who formerly earned 20 to 30 shillings per week, now compelled to live on 5, 4, or even less”

report adds that workers were often abandons from the moment that an accident have happened their wages are stops, no medical attendance is provided, and the extent of the injury, no compensation is afforded. injured workers would typically lose their jobs and also receive no financial compensation for their injury to pay for much needed health care.

annual earnings only parts reflect hourly wages.

They reflect difference in how many hours a year workers spend on the job.

nWorldHistoryTextbook/IndustrialRevolu tion/IREffects.html#workingconditions quite same for workers to work 12 hour s or more a day