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The Negative Impact Of Industrialization In The United States

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Industrialization was when people started using more machines to do work. Industrialization began in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Although this may sound like a good thing, most parts of it were negative. Industrialization had a negative impact on society because of the working conditions, child labor, and immigration. Child labor was a big negative. The children were exposed to bad morals and didn’t get to go to school because of work. Many children were injured and some even killed on the job. The children's’ bosses would take advantage of them by paying them very little. At night, child laborers would work at bowling alleys. Bad people would often be at the bowling alleys. They would offer the kids drugs and alcohol and would expose …show more content…

Immigration was bad because immigrants were treated harshly at the immigration stations, their bosses didn’t care about them, they were discriminated, and had poor living conditions. People from mostly Asia would get into the United States through Angel Island. At Angel Island, the people were interrogated, lived in barracks with bad sanitary conditions, were separated from their family, inspected for disease, and were treated harshly. Some would have to stay there for very long times. It could have been days, weeks, months, or maybe sometimes years. There were people called nativists who didn’t like immigration. Nativists didn’t want immigrants in America because they were scared that immigrants would take other Americans jobs. Americans also feared the immigrants because they were afraid that the immigrants would transform America to their home country’s culture. Many immigrants that came to America were discriminated against. They spoke different languages, practiced different religions and cultures, and looked different. Millions of immigrants settled in ghetto neighborhoods in big cities. In these ghetto places, the conditions were not very good. They lived in crowded tenements that had small rooms. The tenements smelled bad and had bad sanitary conditions. Immigrants would take jobs even though the pay was low because they needed the money so desperately. The Chinese Exclusion Act was a law that banned Chinese laborers from America and …show more content…

They were negative because of the long hours, low wages, and the unsafe and unsanitary conditions. Women in factories would earn only about 1-3 dollars a day and children would get between only 50 cents to 3 dollars a week. When workers worked in mines they had to separate lumps of coal and they ended up with curved spines because of all the bending over while shoveling the heavy coal. The factories were extremely hot in the summer and extremely cold in the winter and the workers sometimes had to huddle together so they didn’t freeze. Rooms in the factories were normally airless and not properly ventilated. Rooms were also dark, crowded and dusty. Many worker’s’ eyesight was ruined because of the dim lights. There were many dangerous fumes and machinery. There was broken glass all over the place because of accidents. Tens of thousands of workers died each year from accidents in mills and factories. There were many contagious diseases spread throughout the factory and workers often fell ill from bad conditions and diseases. Workers received crippling pains over the years from repeated movement of their hands all the time. They couldn’t eat regularly to maintain health and had no health insurance. Workers got very tired after extremely long days. In the meatpacking industry, the workers ate where they worked, couldn’t wash their hands, and would sometimes have to go to the bathroom

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