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"Working conditions were terrible in 19th century Britain." Does the evidence support this view?
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"Working conditions were terrible in 19th century Britain." Does the evidence support this view? Working conditions varied in different areas of work. In general, they improved over time and towards the end of the nineteenth century many laws and acts had been passed that made conditions better. The working conditions were not the same for all social groups, the middle class people who worked as shop keepers, clerks and skills men still had to work hard but their lives were not as bad as the working class. The early factory workers were treated like slaves and were forced to behave as if they were machines. I do think conditions were terrible for many people especially factory workers and miners. I will explain and discuss in detail more about this later on. People began to build factories at the beginning of the eighteenth century and there were very few regulations. Factory...
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