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Condition of the Working Peoples in Mid-1800's France By Charlie Nelson The working class, as portrayed in Emile Zola's Germinal, lived an impoverished lifestyle rich only in suffering, crude behavior, and Socialistic ideals. The coal miners portrayed lived day to day on a subsistence level of income although working grueling hours (from dawn to dusk) and being battered from physically demanding labor. Morals were not of the utmost importance of these miners, to say the least. Sex, alcoholism, etc. were rampant in the mines and went almost unnoticed. There were strong feelings of opposition towards their superiors and Capitalism, explaining the revolts and strikes that the miners preformed in hope of a better life. All in all, the working class in mid-1800's France lived rough lives, were swallowed in lewd and indecent habits, and looked towards strikes to help better their lives. Conditions for the miner were very rough....

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