Lindsey B
In changing times of the 1800s people were horribly mistreated and taken advantage of on a massive scale by factory owners. From children (most ordinarily under the age of ten), to men, to women: people’s livelihoods as they knew it were shattered and replaced by an impersonal, cramped and constricted day-to-day life style. The wealthy factory owners controlled everything about their “wage slaves” lives: meals, housing, education, voting rights, and they even on occasion had their workers “escorted” on their off-hours to and from church and other such places. The repercussion of this was their very voices had been taken. They couldn’t express their discontentment let alone act out on their desires for change.