Did the industrial revolution brought more trouble or benefit to the people in 18th century?
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Well, I’m not going to debate my points, but i will tell you some of the impact the industrial revolution had on the working people
At one point in NY City
Deplorable working conditions were the norm for factory workers
Disease, in particular, V.D was rampant.
Prostitution was rampant
Homeless children were living in the street…so many of them that in NYC they were put on trains and sent out West to be adopted by anybody who would take them. Nobody cared about their safety or if they were being adopted by abusive pedophiles, or if they were used as slave labor, or if they were murdered.
Over crowed, unsanitary, vermin infested tenement living was the norm.
People worked 12-16 hour a day. There was no job security
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The Bankers and investors did VERY WELL. The Robber Barons came to power…the Vanderbilts, the Carnegies, Rockefellers, just to name a few. Business did very well. The wages were very low and there were no unions.
So you’ll have to argue that either the ends justified the means, or they didn’t.
Pick a time period…in the beginning it was hard on the people, but then it became legal to have unions and legal to strike, and that’s when things turned around and America was able to grow a Middle Class.
Conservative Business people weren’t happy about unionization and collective bargaining because it cut into their profits. Maximizing profit was what they did. That meant they had to keep wages as low as possible. They really liked the worker-as-slave model.