Required to work at age six, most workers were in the factories “From 5 in the morning till 9 at night” (Sadler) everyday “for about a half a year” (Sadler). These long hours and low wages are due to the greedy aristocrats who desire efficiency over all. In addition to long hours, workers were faced with constant abuse from nefarious factory owners. When asked about abuse in the workplace, the factory worker stated that his boss would “take a strap, and a whistle in his mouth, and sometimes he has a chain and chained them, and strapped them all down the room” (Sadler). This abuse of children was also highly prevalent in mothers who have attested to her “breasts have given [her] the most frightful pain, and [she had] been dripping wet with milk” (Engles). The fact that new mothers were forced to work so harshly, leaving their children to “grow up like wild weeds” (Engles) show the exploitation of the revolution. In the aristocrat’s eyes, the nation was progressing faster than ever, but to the common working family was a death sentence that mimicked to them
Required to work at age six, most workers were in the factories “From 5 in the morning till 9 at night” (Sadler) everyday “for about a half a year” (Sadler). These long hours and low wages are due to the greedy aristocrats who desire efficiency over all. In addition to long hours, workers were faced with constant abuse from nefarious factory owners. When asked about abuse in the workplace, the factory worker stated that his boss would “take a strap, and a whistle in his mouth, and sometimes he has a chain and chained them, and strapped them all down the room” (Sadler). This abuse of children was also highly prevalent in mothers who have attested to her “breasts have given [her] the most frightful pain, and [she had] been dripping wet with milk” (Engles). The fact that new mothers were forced to work so harshly, leaving their children to “grow up like wild weeds” (Engles) show the exploitation of the revolution. In the aristocrat’s eyes, the nation was progressing faster than ever, but to the common working family was a death sentence that mimicked to them