The Upper Class during the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 1

Extremely bad.

In the book " The Jungle " by Upton Sinclair, the author detailed the appaling conditions faced by the workers of the meat-packaging industry, but the author was careful to present it as a novel that was about a Lithuanian who ended up working in a Chicago meat-packaging factories.

The public understood that it wasnt intended to be a novel, and the outcry was bad enough to instigate Roosevelt to send in Charles P.Neills and James Bronson Reynolds to check the situation for themselves in Chicago. They found that most of the disgusting conditions mentioned in Sinclair's novel actually existed in those plants.

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"There were the men in the pickle rooms, for instance, where old Antanas

had gotten his death; scarce a one of these that had not some spot of

horror on his person. Let a man so much as scrape his finger pushing a

truck in the pickle rooms, and he might have a sore that would put him

out of the world; all the joints in his fingers might be eaten by the

acid, one by one.

Of the butchers and floorsmen, the beef-boners and

trimmers, and all those who used knives, you could scarcely find a

person who had the use of his thumb; time and time again the base of it

had been slashed, till it was a mere lump of flesh against which the

man pressed the knife to hold it. The hands of these men would be

criss-crossed with cuts, until you could no longer pretend to count

them or to trace them. They would have no nails,--they had worn them off

pulling hides; their knuckles were swollen so that their fingers spread

out like a fan.

There were men who worked in the cooking rooms, in the

midst of steam and sickening odors, by artificial light; in these rooms

the germs of tuberculosis might live for two years, but the supply

was renewed every hour. There were the beef-luggers, who carried

two-hundred-pound quarters into the refrigerator-cars; a fearful kind of

work, that began at four o'clock in the morning, and that wore out the

most powerful men in a few years. There were those who worked in the

chilling rooms, and whose special disease was rheumatism; the time limit

that a man could work in the chilling rooms was said to be five years.

There were the wool-pluckers, whose hands went to pieces even sooner

than the hands of the pickle men; for the pelts of the sheep had to be

painted with acid to loosen the wool, and then the pluckers had to

pull out this wool with their bare hands, till the acid had eaten their

fingers off. There were those who made the tins for the canned meat; and

their hands, too, were a maze of cuts, and each cut represented a chance

for blood poisoning. Some worked at the stamping machines, and it was

very seldom that one could work long there at the pace that was set, and

not give out and forget himself and have a part of his hand chopped off.

There were the "hoisters," as they were called, whose task it was to

press the lever which lifted the dead cattle off the floor. They ran

along upon a rafter, peering down through the damp and the steam; and

as old Durham's architects had not built the killing room for the

convenience of the hoisters, at every few feet they would have to stoop

under a beam, say four feet above the one they ran on; which got them

into the habit of stooping, so that in a few years they would be walking

like chimpanzees.

Worst of any, however, were the fertilizer men, and

those who served in the cooking rooms. These people could not be shown

to the visitor,--for the odor of a fertilizer man would scare any

ordinary visitor at a hundred yards, and as for the other men, who

worked in tank rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open

vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they

fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never

enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,--sometimes they would be

overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the

world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard! "

if you want a more direct description, read "Down and Out in Paris and London" by George Orwell ( the author of "animal Farm " ). He spent some time wandering around, undertaking the lowest forms of work in Paris and London, and wrote down what he saw.

he says , concerning the restaurants of europe, that the more you pay for your food, the more dirt you'll get in it ( and he goes into details that he actually saw ).

Answer 2

the upper and upper middle class lived in the best most expensive houses and enjoyed the best of what the new consumer society had to offer

Answer 3

IT WAS GREAT! They had benefits and began to become wealthy.
Naught.

Answer 4

they were horrible and they were also very crowded

Answer 5

Very poor, poverty was evident and children had to work in factories that caused pollution and various health problems.

Answer 6

The Upper Class lived in luxury, and received a lot of money. They started to enjoy literature and the arts in their new found time also. They had servants too.

Answer 7

How did the Industrial Revolution cut into the political power of the upper classes?A.Middle-class professionals demanded a voice in government.

Answer 8

crappy

Answer 9

good