Money, which can be the root of all kinds of evil, is necessary. A specific form of money is almost always necessary to live in todays developed countries. Money is used to purchase needs such as food, water, heat, and clothing. It is not easy to live without money in the present. While money is useful and usually depended on for living, it can cause many issues. Imagine that one were to receive a sum of ten million dollars. Many people would be jealous, ask for money, or even try to claim it for themselves. After receiving the ten million dollars the individual is not happy, they usually want more, or make poor decisions with the money. The unfortunate truth is, studies and accounts of people winning the lottery, show this to be true. The love of …show more content…
Businesses and factories needed work. Business grew extremely quickly and had a very high demand for work. Many people were willing to work with the only requirement being, they got paid. At the start of the revolution, the workers were not concerned with working conditions, wages, or what they were doing for work. People cared about making money, not necessarily how much money they made. As time went on conditions, including pay, lessened because people began to lose their ability to bargain with large companies. People lost the ability to bargain because large masses of people were willing to work for almost nothing. People would work twelve to sixteen hours a day and receive eight to ten dollars a day for their work.
The workplace was not clean. There were no health or safety standards in the workplace. Many people contracted diseases from where they had worked and would frequently die from those diseases. The only lighting in most factories was from sunlight coming through windows, if there were windows. Factory smoke filled the inside of factories and workers would leave covered in soot. Machines would be dangerous, and many people would become injured or be killed from the
After the revolution, people had to get used to the radical changes. There was a change in wealth as well. As document #4 stated there was a decrease in wealth and it evened out to the middle/moderate class. This was a huge difference because it almost doubled in middle/ moderate class. The
During this time working conditions were less than tolerable and workers were treated unethically, especially compared to laws and procedures of today’s
There was an abundance of workers, and the items they were producing were being found in homes across the country. Industry was making a lot of money, but due to the number of able workers, these same companies believed that they did not need to treat them well. The workers were putting in ten to twelve hours a day, five and a half, or six days a week (p. 9). The working conditions
There was still no care for safety, no one watching them, and terrible pay. (artifact 4) Factory owners did not care about the quality or safety of the things they were making. (artifact 3) Most people lived in overcrowded cities. They could be unhealthy, dirty, and most people were very poor. (artifact 1) Most political bosses were known to be corrupt.
The people worked dangerous jobs to provide for themselves and family with little pay. Children were even working in dangerous factories and constructions barely little to no pay. Workers would try to go on strike,
Although many people were being employed and paid, working conditions were very hazardous and payment was unfair. Workers would work twelve to eighteen hours a day, but got poorly paid by their
The factories were also not heated or cooled so the workers would get very hot or very cold. Back then there were no laws to protect the lives of the workers and most of the time the factory owners cared meore about the making of money than the employies which also didn’t help with the saftey issues. There were
During the years 1880-1920 there were many issues because of urbanization and industrialization. The industrial revolution brought many new job opportunities with low wages making companies focus on women and children. These opportunities were available but at a cost, they were paid less and they were forced to work up to ten hours. The industrial giants made labor a tough and unfair lifestyle. They wanted more riches, but they were making people suffer in order to obtain the money.
Often times, six or more people were living together in one room, making it easy to transmit disease and other sicknesses. As for the conditions of the factories, they were also crowded and unsafe, and workers were barely paid enough to live. Soon the progressive leaders and other citizens realized that people could not reasonably live and work with the conditions. “And yet, in spite of this, there would be hams found spoiled, some of them with an odor so bad that a man could hardly bear to be in the room with them” (Doc. F).
Why do we need money? Do we need money because of our wants or needs, or both? Money is an essential aspect in our society in which we use to supply our needs and wants. Everyone in our society thinks differently in respect towards if you have more money than more problem. In the contrary, if I were to give you a million dollars I highly doubt you will have more problems instead more problems solved because you have more money.
The workers were often subjected to sweltering heat in the summer and frigid conditions in the winter. But, that was not it, at the time there were no laws in place that required businesses to ensure their employees' safety, and this regularly lead to many injuries and fatalities in the workplace on a daily basis. There was not a single work place that did not have injured or mutilated employees, and this was due to the unsafe working conditions of the factories, “Let a man so much as scrape his finger pushing a truck in the pickle-rooms, and he might have a sore that would put him out of the world; all the joints in his fingers might be eaten by the acid, one by one… There were men who worked in the cooking rooms… in these rooms the germs of tuberculosis might live for two years, but the supply was renewed every hour.” (109).
The life of an industrial worker was very hard. Workers had to work long shifts and get paid very little. Some worked ten to twelve hours a day, six days a week, and made less than one dollar per hour. Along with long hours and little pay, there was no regulation for breaks, safety, or age. Due to this, one in eleven workers died on the job.
People have to have the best of the best, they have to be on top. They have to have the most money, the best house, the best wife, and so much more. You often forget the true value of life when all you do is want. It corrodes relationships, families, and lives. Money, when used right, can benefit you in many ways.
Money is something that is important and necessary in the society in which we live. As a matter of fact, there is not a lot of things that can be obtained without the use of money. Money or currency is basically something used by someone in order to obtain goods or services (Ferrell, et al., 2016). For example, a customer will need to have money for such things as shopping for clothing, food, and other items. Fiat money or paper money as we know it today, did not come into existence until the Great Depression of the 1930s (Ferrell, et al., 2016).
Child labor was a great problem in the Industrial Revolution. Factory owners usually hired women and children rather than men. They said that men expected higher wages, and they suspected that they were more likely to rebel against the company. Women and children were forced to work from six in the morning to seven at night, and this was when they were not so busy. They were forced to arrive on time and they couldn’t fall behind with their work because if they did they were whipped and punished.