Factory conditions were dismal.
Long hours (16 hour work days) seven days a week under dirty, unsafe, conditions. Lots of workers died because they were so exhausted they fell asleep and leaned into the unprotected flywheels or leatherbands operating huge machinery.
Child labor was the norm, and a lot of children died, were horribly injured, or caught lung diseases from breathing in soot, lint, sawdust, or other dust particles.
The factories were freezing in the winter and roasting in the summer.
The working 'class' were treated just like that, an expendable class of humans made to work in the dingy dangerous factories of laissez faire capitalism.
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