Monday, January 18, 2010

✖Working Conditions

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I will take you to the factories in the 1800s today for seeing working conditions in that time!
You would guess it must not be good working conditions, do not you?
No, it is not good at all.

As we have known from US history class. Besides that terrible living conditions, working conditions in the 1800s are awful.
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Let's go inside the factory.

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Inside of factory are dark, dirty and crowdes with a lot of workers. It looks pretty dangerous.
Passageways are narrow. There are no any safty system, window, air conditioner, or good bathroom. I see many young children in here. They are too young to be working like this.

Source : clike here

I am walking around with one lady telling experiences about working in factory.

''Children as young as six years old are working hard hours for little wages or no pay. Sometimes they work up to 19 hours a day. Not only are those children work long hours, but they also are in horrible conditions. Dangerous machines are very common for children to be using or working near. Many accidents injured or killed children on the job.''

Source : clike here

''Some metal workers don't have all of the eye protection. People got stuff like lung cancer. Some died due to diseases spreading through the cramped living conditions, Chest diseases from the mines.
''The fire escapes are in disrepair.''

There are machines in here. I thought that is good if they are helped by machines. But then I realized when this lady told me that machines are really good helpers but people would be placed by those machines and lost their job.

She said the workers often work twelve hours and six to seven days a week. The pay is low and working conditions are poor.

''The factory owner does not care anything but money.''
That was the last sentence of her.

But the sentence from her which surprised me was ''They feel lucky because they have a job.''

1 comment:

  1. It is surprising that people were happy to have the jobs when the conditions were so bad. Great blog entry!

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