Question

Write a short note on life of the workers in europe?

Answer 1

Answer:

(i) Seasonal work: In most of the industries, the demand for labor was seasonal. The actual possibility of getting a job depended on existing networks of friendship and kin relations.

(ii) Low wages: The workers were getting very low wages. At the best of times till the mid-nineteenth century, about 10% of the population was extremely poor.

(iii) Women workers: Factories employed a large number of women. With technological development women gradually lost their industrial jobs.

(iv)  The Problem of Housing: Most of the workers were living in slums. Factory or workshop owners did not house the migrant workers,

(v) Source of Fun and Leisure: For the poor workers, the streets often were the only place for rest, leisure and fun. The working poor created spaces of entertainment wherever they lived...