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Unhealthy & Dangerous Working Conditions
Factory owners were not concerned with worker's conditions but with profit. The workers suffered long hours for low wages and in unsafe working conditions.Workers formed unions to fight for higher wages, better hours and safer conditions. However, unions experienced challenges because of the government's cooperation with business. -
Tenement Housing
Much of the urban poor, and majority of immigrants, lived in tenement housing. The conditions were terrible. They were overpopulated, had no privacy, and were unsanitary causing disease to spread quicker. There was no fresh air or much commodities. -
Monopolies
Monopolies got rid of competition so they would be the only product available. If they were the only product available, they would then have to pay whatever price. The government was not regulating business so this allowed monopolies which hurt small business and consumers. -
Jim Crow Laws
This laws made the segregation of schools, transportation, libraries, restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for the whites and blacks. These laws were created to separate the black people and white people because they thought African Americans were born to be slaves and workers and should not be like whites.
