New Isn T Always The Best

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New Isn’t Always The Best

Due to the switch from old labor to new labor, many problems and predicaments arose, including, awful crammed working conditions like, "cramming together of dwellings" and indescribable working conditions, “getting into a filth and disgusting grime.” Because of this switch, disagreements emerged which caused groups like the liberals trying to discover solutions to this problem which infuriated other groups like the Socialists and Conservatives who found these “liberal solutions” deficient and pathetic. Throughout the several years after these debacles, these groups tried to find a joint way to fight of these inhumane and terrible acts and fix what became the new factory labor.
Although some had a problem with the old factory labor, it was undoubtedly and undeniably inferior and less controversial than the new one. Problems that started with the new factory labor are heart wrenching, but the way old factory labor was taking care of business shows that a change should have never occurred. Throughout the old factory labor, there were minimal downsides, including the pressure to do a good job that was very hard initially because of the conditions of these mills. The last and the largest downside of the old labor were the undesirable and egregious working hours. These “minor” downsides of the old labor don’t sound like a huge deal but having to work 12-15 hours a day while trying to do everything perfect is the definition of hard. Like said above, these workers that are just plan hardworking men and women try their best to make good products (coal, farmed goods, etc.), throughout a tiring and strenuous day, which is not easy at all. “In every large works, and in the co-ordination of any large number of workmen, good order and harmony must be looked upon as the fundamentals of success, and therefore the following rules shall be strictly observed.” Headlines and titles like this, that label the top of the rule book for all workers shows the ultimate hard work they are enforced to do and completely carry out everyday. The last large eye opening downside of this old labor situation was the gruesome working hours. Like said above, men and women worked as hard as they could for 12-15 hours every day with a couple very short breaks interlocking their shifts. These workers lives depended on getting to work on time and no more than two minutes late, and I mean two minutes. “Workers arriving 2 minutes late shall lose half an hour’s wages; whoever is more than 2 minutes late may not start work until after the next break, or at least shall lose his wages until then.” Due to this rule, a hard working father or mother, that could be a parent of several kids, they could lose up to half a days pay just for being a little over two minutes late. Another unsettling rule is; “Repeated irregular arrival at work shall lead to dismissal”. Rules like these that formed how men and women worked in the old labor days, is shocking and almost motivating to work hard for what people can have now a days. Working 12-15 hours a day is unheard of now, but the way men and women carried on and came back to work every day to provide for their family is outstanding, eye opening, and inspiring.
Throughout the switch from the old labor to the new labor an unexpected and unneeded amount of problems and errors arose. Things like crummy working conditions, crammed working conditions, which in the long run led to problems getting things done in factories due to the crowdedness and packed floors of all the factories. Lastly another large contributing factor that arose was that interior problems between families when women particularly the moms wanted to work in the mills like the fathers, there was nothing to do with the children, which overall broke up families. These are three major problems that specifically occurred from the switch from old to new factory labor. But like said above, a serious problem was the infectious and disgusting