Conditions in the industrial revolution were not impeccable. As more jobs became open with the invention of the steam powered engines, production was increasing. More factories were being built to house new machinery. The conditions in these new factories were not great, as scientist had not yet discovered the reaction in germs and the spreading of diseases.
Towns were all segregated by class, and by working class areas. With the every day worker, came with the worst conditions. Because the governing classes lived in different areas, they were never able to see the conditions the workers had to work in. Workers were protesting, and would be ignored. They then had to keep working in those horrible conditions. These conditions lead to diseases spreading quickly. As one of the main killers of the industrial age was Cholera. As cities were growing in population, and the conditions for these workers were awful, this disease spread with ease, killing thousands. Typhoid was another deadly disease, mainly spread through water not being cleaned properly. People were drinking contaminated water, staring the wave of cholera and typhoid. As these workers would get ill, they had no choice but to keep working as they often had families to feed. Because the workers worked in conditions where germs spread easily, these common diseases would spread very quickly amongst the other workers.
Do you think that marxism could have had a positive effect on the safety conditions because of more government control?
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion I would say no, because the rich population lived in better areas and rarely saw what was happening elsewhere. The government also didn't care as much about the safety as of many others, and as I said in another post "as long as the machines worked everything else would be fine." The government really only cared about production and becoming better.
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