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ECON ECONOMIC H Improving the lives of European Workers.
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Analyze various arguments that emerged over the course of the nineteenth century about how to improve the lives of European workers The Industrial Revolution caused a massive urban migration. As f ... actories were built, and businesses started, they need workers. With such a massive working population moving to the city, the employers could set the wages low and determine the conditions of employment. The working conditions were dangerous and the hours were long. This soon came to a head and the workers joined together to create unions to fight for safer conditions, better hours, and increased wages. Some reformers were looking for modest government reforms, while others were flat out revolutionaries that wanted to throw out the whole system and start from scratch. A core of conservatives didn’t think that reform was needed at all, they believed that the free market system would balance out over time and provide for the poor as it had provided wealth for them [Show More]
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