The industrialization had many negative effects in society. people who owned businesses wanted to make more money, so they started hiring children, even though they had a very low pay for their jobs. While some might argue that industrialization had positive consequences for society because more jobs became available it was actually a negative thing for society. Industrialization negative effects were the child labor being employed, the unequal pay for workers, and the damaged environment from pollution. Children had always worked, especially in farming. But factory work was hard. A child with a factory job might work 12 to 18 hours a day, six days a week, to earn a dollar. “C: And what time did it come on? B: I was about 13 years old when it began coming, and it has got worse since; it is five years since my mother died, and my mother was never able to get me a good pair of stays to hold me up, and when my mother died I had to do for …show more content…
Children would start working at the age of 6 years old; in fact, children sometimes worked up to 19 hours a day, with a one-hour total break. Children aged 11-18 be permitted to work a maximum of twelve hours per day. The Lewis Hine Photograph shows, “That in the image children need to have their clothes wrapped up because they can either get their clothes stuck in the machine” (Document 8). Many children at the age from 11-18 were able to work on machines. The treatment of children in factories has been often cruel and unusual. “C: What time did you begin work at the factory? B: When I was six years old” (Document 8). Children as young as six years old worked hard hours for little or no pay. The children were in horrible conditions. Another negative consequence of the industrialization was that work hours