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Workers Conditions in 19th Century Europe
What would it be like to be forced to work long hours for little pay? What feelings would you have after being treated horribly at your workplace? Many workers had to face hardship while working in the factories of 19th century Europe. This was caused by careless government and factory owners. The workers had terrible lives because of low wages and inability to advance in social class. According to an article written by Louise Curth, ”In many cases, the factory owners tended to consider their employees as little more than commodities. The men, women, and children who filled those roles were generally subjected to long hours, low wages, and poor working conditions”. This shows how the factory owners treated their workers. The factory owners thought of the workers as an item rather than an actual human. This caused workers to become very upset with these factory owners.
Workers were not only upset because of how they were treated by their bosses, but also they were angry about how they were being paid. They received extremely low wages that they could barely make a living with. In addition to the low wages, they were subject to long hours in the gruesome factories. All of these conditions built up a large amount of anger towards the government and factory owners. The workers had to do something in order to better their lives. Workers in 19th century Europe had horrible lives as a result of limited attention from the government; workers union were the only thing that ended up getting the attention of the government, and therefore bettering the worker’s lives.
While working conditions was a big problem during this time period, there were some solutions that did have some affect on the prob...

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...sult of little attention from the government; workers unions were the only thing that got the government’s attention, and therefore improving the worker’s lives. These worker unions helped the working conditions improve dramatically. Without the worker unions we could’ve been treating workers badly even today.

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