Throughout the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s, U.S. citizens worked in unsustainable and hazardous conditions, according to Norwood Secondary College. Employers often demanded long hours and hard work in place of worker’s safety.
The average employee worked anywhere from 12 to 16 hours a day, six days a week.
Wages for the working-class were below the amount necessary to take care of oneself or a family. Employees were offered minimal workers’ rights…